Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.
Lakshmi, Padma. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir. Ecco, 2016.
There was no Federal regulation of food and drink then. Fast buck whisky purveyors would include all kinds of ingredients and processes, safe and sanitary or not. Many Americans died or became very sick from eating tainted food then. Even bad whisky had killed many. TR chose whisky as his example, because Congress was filled with heavy drinkers and whisky was then the favorite Congressional drink. Roosevelt, with these tactics got the first federal food regulatory laws passed over enourmous opposition, not unlike the fight over Obamacare which would take place a century later.
Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan, (Tamil pronunciation: ['pəd̪mə 'ləkɕmi]), is an Indian American author, activist, model, and television host.