Tomatoes for Neela MIDDLE GRADE Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made

Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits

Using her own experiences as a Tony Award-winning Broadway actress

and hard-work

deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama

award-winning articles that changed the public conversation around race

Tomatoes for Neela MIDDLE GRADE Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has madePadma Lakshmi, bestselling author and host of Bravos Top Chef and Hulus Taste the Nation, and Caldecott Honor winning illustrator Juana Martinez Neal team up in this celebration of food and family. Some of my fondest memories from childhood are of cooking with the women in my family. It is the foundation for all I have spent my life working on. Padma LakshmiNeela loves cooking with her amma and writing down the recipes in her notebook. It makes her