{"id":171,"date":"2008-04-09T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-02-19T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:15:04","slug":"my-aspirations-or-why-i-want-to-be-a-food-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/my-aspirations-or-why-i-want-to-be-a-food-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"My Aspirations, or Why I Want to be a Food Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Womens Wear Daily<\/a>, during Monday’s New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Awards, “Top Chef” judge Padma Lakshmi was quoted saying:<\/p>\n

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“I’m living my mother’s dream, I sit on my ass, I eat and I talk.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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According to Womens Wear Daily, during Monday’s New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Awards, “Top Chef” judge Padma Lakshmi was quoted saying: “I’m living my mother’s dream, I sit on my ass, I eat and I talk.” .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[763,764,770],"tags":[150,344],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creating-a-living","category-food-living-well","category-writing-blogging","tag-eating","tag-quotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457",640,457,false]},"categories_names":{"763":{"name":"Creating a Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/"},"764":{"name":"Food","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/food-living-well\/"},"770":{"name":"Writing & Blogging","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/writing-blogging\/"}},"tags_names":{"150":{"name":"Eating","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/eating\/"},"344":{"name":"quotes","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/quotes\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=300%2C300",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=305%2C207",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=400%2C457",400,457,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=600%2C457",600,457,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=640%2C457",640,457,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=130%2C95",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457",640,457,false]},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-2L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/10\/persian-recipe-advieh-powder\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"Persian Recipe: Advieh Powder","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Advieh powder is a seasoning mix used in some recipes for Persian food, including this recipe for stuffed peppers. 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