It’s so obvious, but here goes: Has Padma told Salman to pack his knives and go?

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New York Magazine has a tasty little item this week about Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. The overall theme: faint praise and implicit disrespect.

The host of Top Chef and the author of The Satanic Verses are finally calling it quits.

Padma’s got a potty mouth; bloggers gasp! Oh yeah, she’s got a cookbook, too.

purchased was quite soft to the touch – it almost felt overripe. The flesh was golden colored and while I’d love to be able to give a description like this: "it exhibited notes of Salman Rushdie's head sweat ,...

"In the magazine this week, Jada Yuan spoke to some of the contestants from Bravo’s Top Chef about host Padma Lakshmi, wife of Salman Rushdie." Why was it necessary to state who her husband is? That leaves a bad taste in my...

This review reads like a Salman Rushdie novel. The place sounds interesting, although I’m not sure I need full "scrotal tenderness."

sure Padma’s intimidated by the celebrity chefs—-heck, her husband IS Salman Rushdie.

This link has a good photo of her from the very recent Emmys. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1217502/Salman-Rushdies-ex-wife-Padma-Lakshmi-reveals-shes-pregnant—whos-daddy.html

is beautiful _ at least many people think so. She was married to Salman Rushdie, which gives her extra celebrity cred. In America, TV shows need a beautiful, famous model to be the face of the show.

the puppy ( who goes right under the table and ignores all -including Salman Rushdie and Julian Schnabel!)

-time best celebrity sighting: Salman Rushdie with new wife I read yesterday in LAT that Alain Giraud is being forced out of Bastide and may be creating a more casual restaurant, which is what he has long preffered. I look...

A couple of years ago, when we were visiting NYC, we ate at Angon. It was easily the best Indian meal I’ve had outside of India (and I’m an Indian living in the SF Bay Area). As an added bonus, the people occupying...

http://www.chaineus.org/badges_ribbons_medals/index.htm I think that’s the group with the medals. And yes Padme requested a divorce from her husband Salman Rushdie (yes THAT Salman Rushdie, of The Satanic Versus fame, who...