padma lakshmi

Grinders

• "Top Chef" Check-In
  The bloggers dish about the second season of Bravo's Top Chef. We distill, so you don't have to.
• Top Schmuck
  Watch out, Top Chef kvetchers: If you happen to think host Padma Lakshmi's expanse of exposed skin in a working kitchen is a pinch inappropriate, you might be as anti-Semetic as Mel Gibson.
• Paddling Padma
  New York Magazine has a tasty little item this week about Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. The overall theme: faint praise and implicit disrespect.
• Padma and Salman: Banana Splitsville?
  It's so obvious, but here goes: Has Padma told Salman to pack his knives and go?
• Padma and Rusho Go Busto!
  The host of Top Chef and the author of The Satanic Verses are finally calling it quits.
• It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World
  _Top Chef_: Stop searing our eyeballs with ads!
• Padma Effing Lakshmi
  Padma's got a potty mouth; bloggers gasp! Oh yeah, she's got a cookbook, too.
• Ted Allen Gets Saucy
  The Top Chef judge offers advice to presidential hopefuls and dishes details on Padma in the nude.

Stories

• Crap on a “Top Chef” Plate
  Is ousted chef Carlos the most decent person on reality TV?
• CHOW’s “Top Chef” Round Table
  Looking back on the second season
• First Chef Down
  Top Chef 3 kicks off with alligator steak, frog legs, and fried Padma toe
• Padma Loves Brian’s Shanks
  But is it enough to make him a Top Chef?
• Casey, Drop the Roe
  There’s still room for a female Top Chef
• Top Chef Season 3 Round Table
  The experts hash it out
• The Year in Food 2007
  Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more
• On to Chicago
  Episode 1: A new raft of Top Chef contestants enters the kitchen