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Padma Lakshmi's 5 Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

The Top Chef host and author shared her love for the series on Instagram, so we asked her to go a little deeper.
Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, host and<em> The New York Times </em>best-selling author.

For Tiny Desk Playlists, we ask musicians, creators and folks we admire to choose the Tiny Desk concerts they've come to love. For this edition, food expert and television producer Padma Lakshmi picks her

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