Comments on: Not A Chef, But She Plays One On TV

By: robin

robin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:06:22 +0000

padma sounds like pud mar which is too fart funny name

By: uc

uc — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:55:09 +0000

She is an over the hill model whose only claim to fame is marrying Rushdie. Now that she milked him by using all his celeb friends in NYC, she has conveniently dumped him. She said in interviews that Rushdie has nothing to do with her achievements. Who are you kidding? I feel sorry for Rush..he fell for her. He needs to tone his bod and try and find another aspiring desi model! BTW, there is another Indian model Rachel Roy who is in the same oat, married to Damon Dash, Aaliyah’s boyfriend..

By: ak

ak — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:30:21 +0000

i saw her on planet food when she went to india and was pretty impressed by the fact that she could actually bargain with the vegetablewalas in (if i remember correctly) madras. in fact, she even did it in the local language. not bad for a supermodel

i remember that show. i also remember her trying to speak tamil in every single south indian state except TN (they visited the other three). her tamil was not great, but still - why would you expect some guy in vizag or wherever to understand your tamil? if i remember correctly, somebody from the crew had to translate for her at each point. it was a bit painful.

as for top chef, she's a bit better this season, but she still asks the most inane questions and makes the most irrelevant comments, which the other judges just ignore. i just don't get the appeal of ms. PL, esp. when she's speaking...

By: Nirmala

Nirmala — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:44:33 +0000

Mani….I agree!! I just don’t see what all the hype is about. Nice frame, good body, yes….but gorgeous face? Not. She looks very average to me. Her height and body carry most of the weight in her attractiveness…

By: Mani

Mani — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:48:27 +0000

I just saw her on the show. I htink she is over-rated in every way. I don’t see her as even vaguely attractive or charismatic on the show. She seemed lifeless, dead as a door knob. Hardly worth watching in anyway. Why is she even remotley famous isbeyond me. There are many many more attractive Indian women running around the USA, more talented as well. Her only claim to fame seems to be that she married an old pot bellied worn out writer named Salman Rushdie.

By: Ennis

Ennis — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:50:16 +0000

Padma Laxmi on YouTube.

By: Aranyi

Aranyi — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:26:21 +0000

india’s first international model was marie louis phillips i believe. i read about her as a child (read… about 12-14 years ago) in Society Magazine. She moved to Paris. She also has quite superb bone structure. India’s famous models in the 80′s and 90′s (within India) were Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre, then Malaika Arora became and still is a huge face, Ujjwala Raut, Sheetal Mallar, Bipasha Basu, Noyonika Chatterjee, Meher Jesia, Bikram Saluja and Arjun Rampal.

By: Chandi

Chandi — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:35:10 +0000

I am with Ennis. I haven’t seen her show, but in her pictures she looks beautiful but skinny and wooden.

By: Salil Maniktahla

Salil Maniktahla — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:25:38 +0000

*oven-bake it. Not “over-bake it.” Yuck.

By: Salil Maniktahla

Salil Maniktahla — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:24:51 +0000

Ah, Bidismoker…it’s all in the challenge, my friend. First, the guy’s rich and famous (which helps a great deal). Next, based on my selective interpretation of my reading of “The Ground Beneath Her Feet,” I think he’s as much a handful as she is.

And you people will never believe this, but I actually took the non-grossly-biological/ un-lyrical ingredients from my totally-made-up recipe, and actually made what I hereby dub The Real Salmon Rushdie. It turned out pretty good, so I’m sharing it with you:

2 fresh salmon fillets 3 tsp brown sugar 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise 2 tsp garam masala (you know your mom left some around your place somewhere) 2 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp tamarind paste (or you can also use imli chutney) 1 tsp soy sauce 2 tsp sweet mango achar 1 dash of salt and pepper (I didn’t measure it, sorry…it wasn’t very much though)

Mix all ingredients except vanilla bean and salmon in a bowl. Pour over salmon, throw in beans, cover and let marinade for a few hours in the fridge.

I had to over-bake it, but it would probably turn even better if you grilled it.

Tune in next week, when I present a recipe I’m developing…”The Ground Beef ‘neath The Leek.”