Padma Lakshmi Recalls Family, Food And Chennai In ThrowbackNEW YORK, NY- Supermodel, television host, producer, cookbook author and actor Padma Lakshmi shared a childhood photograph from 1977, reminiscing about summers spent with her family in Chennai. She posted, “Speaking of summers in Chennai – here we are in 1977 sitting on my grandfather’s 1969 Ambassador car. Lakshmi also recalled that her Aunt Banu taught her cooking and multiplication tables during her childhood. Recalling those Chennai summers, Lakshmi wrote: “I can feel the mosquitos and the hot Coromandel sun beating down on us in what would have still been late in the day or early evening (my grandmother did not let us out until the sun was low). Born in India and raised in the United States, Lakshmi is the creator, host and executive producer of the docuseries ‘Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi’ and has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations.