The most festive time of the year is upon us, and Padma Lakshmi knows how she’s celebrating.
The 49-year-old Top Chef host chatted with PureWow about her holiday traditions at a recent event for Stacy’s Rise Project, a Stacy’s Pita Chips initiative that supports female-founded businesses in a major way. So what does Lakshmi have planned to keep her season merry and bright? It boils down to two key ingredients: rogue gingerbread houses and Champagne (duh).
Lakshmi told PureWow that she and her daughter Krishna’s traditions are born out of fun. “You’re not going to be able to force them to start a tradition that they don’t want to do,” she reasoned.
The soon-to-be Taste the Nation host, who cleverly calls herself a Christmas Fundamentalist, said she and her daughter “have mistletoe and holly” and a tree that skims their ceiling. They also bake and decorate cookies. But the main event is definitely their gingerbread house.