Join celebrated food storyteller PADMA LAKSHMI as she talks about her love of food and how that love has defined her professional life and informed her memories. She will tell us why she decided to write about food and share the details of memorable meals that she prepared or shared—with parents, children, lovers or friends—and how those meals shaped her life (with one disastrous meal thrown in for humorous measure). In conversation with   fellow food writer ALEKSANDRA CRAPANZANO, she will talk about her food-centric memoir and the creative intersection between writing and cooking, and she will give us a list of her favorite cookbooks. If you love to eat and you love to read, you will love this literary meal.