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Padma Lakshmi

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Seattle, Please Pack Your Knives and Go

    ​Seattle's remaining hopes for Top Chef representation evaporated tonight with the first-round elimination of cheftestant Ashley Villaluz. Villaluz was sent home for a lackluster plate of oxtail, following the northbound path paved last week by Seattle's Simon Pantet, Nina Vicente and Colin P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Seattle Annihilated in Top Chef Competition

    Challenged to "prepare a dish using one cut of pig," Sutra's Colin Patterson made a short rib zucchini cake with mole roja and roasted cauliflower tarragon soup. And it was messy. ​So that's why Top Chef's Seattle delegation was so prickly abut Texas. When I spoke to the show's Seattle-based ... More >>

  • Arts

    November 2, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    Challenged to "prepare a dish using one cut of pig," Sutra's Colin Patterson made a short rib zucchini cake with mole roja and roasted cauliflower tarragon soup. And it was messy. ​So that's why Top Chef's Seattle delegation was so prickly abut Texas. When I spoke to the show's Seattle-based ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2011

    Adam Gopnik

    Challenged to "prepare a dish using one cut of pig," Sutra's Colin Patterson made a short rib zucchini cake with mole roja and roasted cauliflower tarragon soup. And it was messy. ​So that's why Top Chef's Seattle delegation was so prickly abut Texas. When I spoke to the show's Seattle-based ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    What Awaits Top Chef Contestants in San Antonio?

    ​The touring Top Chef road show stopped in San Antonio a few weeks back, delegating season four contestants Dale Talde and Ryan Scott to a local grocery store for a quickfire beef challenge (San Antonians picked the featured ingredient via Facebook. Score one for the Texas Beef Council.) But ... More >>

  • Food

    October 13, 2010

    Voracious News & Notes: Cupcakes, Artisan BLTs, Hot Menu Trends, and Dick's

    ​The touring Top Chef road show stopped in San Antonio a few weeks back, delegating season four contestants Dale Talde and Ryan Scott to a local grocery store for a quickfire beef challenge (San Antonians picked the featured ingredient via Facebook. Score one for the Texas Beef Council.) But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Celebrity Chef Tour with Top Chef's Richard Blais Goes Down This Evening

    Rawr! Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi​Get your booze and schmooze on this evening. (It's not too late to buy tickets!) At the Celebrity Chef Tour, three renowned chefs - former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais, Columbia Tower Club executive chef James Hassel, and Trellis executive chef Brian Sche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Burgers, Manners and Padma Lakshmi Naked

    ​ You know what I like? The fact that I have a job where posting (mostly) naked pictures of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is not just tolerated, but considered smart, forward-thinking and good business. Like see that one up there? That picture has nothing to do with nothing. I could claim that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Speaking of Endangered Species, Restaurant Critics Sound Off on Yelp, Food Blogs, Free Speech, Groucho Marx and Taiwanese Teenagers

    ​Yesterday, Andrew Knowlton, restaurant editor at Bon Appetit magazine and writer of the BA Foodist blog had a few words to say to a frustrated restaurateur dealing with reviews from knuckleheads on Yelp. His advice? Don't get into fights with anonymous online posters, remember that food is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Details Announced for Top Chef Washington D.C.: Eric Ripert For President

    Change I can believe in​Bravo has finally released the vital details on their new season of Top Chef, and this time around the whole show is going to be centered in Washington D.C.--certainly an interesting and cosmopolitan destination, food-wise, and a perfect excuse for the producers to snag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Food News: Completely Useless Edition

    It's too hot to look for serious journalism: In the most relevant news story of the batch, former P-I reporter Andrew Schneider discovers local yak burgers in Elma, Wash. Someone may want to send this link on to the owner of Ed's Kort Haus. Good news for all of you who were worried that Top Chef w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Why I Can't Watch Top Chef

    Yeah, yeah, I know, Season 5 of Top Chef has started. Once again, most of the food blogs are tracking the season, people I know are organizing viewing parties, and a guy can't settle into a blissful hour on the couch with Tim Gunn's Guide to Style without seeing Padma Lakshmi's face, over and over a ... More >>

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