May's issue of Allure magazine featured numerous naked celebrities including Eliza Dushku, Chelsea Handler, Sharon Leal, and Lynn Collins. But the most alluring naked celebrity was Padma Lakshmi who received almost as many votes as every other celebrity combined in a recent online survey conducted on the Vizu Power Polls network.
The titles of Padma Lakshmi's cookbooks seem normal enough. Without any knowledge of the author, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet and Easy Exotic sound like typical names for cookbooks. But Padma Lakshmi is not your every day, run of the mill cookbook author or chef. She is also a sexy, sultry model and TV personality on the Bravo network's Top Chef.
Perhaps Padma Lakshmi or her publisher are trying to insinuate something with the titles of her cookbooks. Perhaps not. But going with the notion that there is more to the titles than just a description of the recipes inside the books, the question arises as to which title most aptly describes this Indian beauty?
According to a public opinion poll conducted on Vizu's networks of food and entertainment sites, Padma Lashmi would be best described at an easy exotic as opposed to tangy, tart, hot, and sweet. Prior research about Padma Lakshmi indicated that of the four adjectives (tangy, tart hot and sweet), she is mostly hot and tart while only mildly sweet and tangy.
Jessica Seinfled, Jerry's wife, and Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie's recent ex-wife, recently released cookbooks.
Jessica's cookbook, Deceptively Delicious, bills itself as "simple secrets to get your kids eating good food." Padma Lakshmi's cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, is described as a world of recipes for every day. But the real question is what do the titles of these cookbooks say about their respective authors.
Given the plagiarism charges leveled against Jessica Seinfeld for her cookbook, the title Deceptively Delicious might to ring a little too close to home. On the other hand, a quick search of the internet for pictures of Padma Lakshmi who is also a model and TV personality and one will quickly realize that she could easily be described as tangy, tart, hot, & sweet.
Were these women trying to tell us something? Perhaps.
In a recent public opinion poll conducted on Vizu's networks of food and entertainment websites, people seemed to think that "tangy, tart, hot, & sweet" described Padma Lakshmi a little better than "deceptively delicious" described Jessica Seinfeld.
Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi recently announced their intention to divorce each other, but who is leaving who is a bit of a mystery.
Statements from both parties sent mixed signal with Rushdie indicating that Lakshmi is leaving him, while Lakshmi's statement indicates a mutual decision.
"Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," said Rushdie's agent. Padma Lakshmi's agent said, in turn, that Padma "has agreed with her husband-author, Salman Rushdie, to end their marriage." And went on to say, "After an eight-year relationship including over three years of marriage, Lakshmi regrets that their mutual efforts failed to make the marriage work."
So the questions naturally arise as to who is leaving who and why?
Clearly both Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi lead busy, complicated lives. Padma is a model, film actress, writer and TV personality currently hosting Top Chef. Salman is a world renown author who was knighted by the Queen of England only a couple of weeks ago for his contribution to literature.
Other information that might influence your thoughts as to who is leaving who include the couple's age difference (Padma is 36 and Salman is 60), the fact that Rushdie has already been through three divorces, and possibly the fact that some Muslim fundamentalists recently renewed the 1989 fatwa against Rushdie for his recent knighting. The fatwa essentially calls for Rushdie's execution. You may recall that Rushdie lived in hiding for 10 years following a fatwa declared against him by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.
What do you think? Who is leaving who and why?
Padma Lakshmi is a hot, tart talent if there ever was one. Not too many celebrities can claim to be as multi-talented as Padma, who, were it not for her recently announced divorce from Sir Salman Rushdie, would probably be best known in America as one of the hosts of the Top Chef, the reality TV show.
Padma Lakshmi's many talents and accomplishments include being a model, film actress, TV co-host, and an acclaimed writer.
Padma began her rise to fame as the first internationally acclaimed Indian supermodel after being discovered in cafe in Spain where she was an exchange student with Clark University at the time. Padma has appeared in films in the US, Italy and India, but seems to be working mostly on TV these days.
Padma's past work on TV includes hosting Italy's top rated TV show, Dominica In, as well as repeated work for the Food Network. More recently she has starred in a couple of mini-series for ABC and the BBC and is currently hosting the third season of Bravo's Top Chef series.
Amazingly enough, particularly in light of Ms. Lakshmi's quite slender physique, Padma is also an accomplished writer having contributed to Vogue, Harper's Bazaar & Gourmet. Padma's first cookbook, Easy Ethnic, features low-cal, low-fat recipes from around the world. Her next cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Sweet, & Hot, is due out in October of 2007 and brings us to the some early results in an opinion poll conducted on the entertainment websites in the Vizu Answers research network.
With 141 votes in so far, the poll results show that the 36 year old Padma Lakshmi is a hot tart with tangy undertones and just a touch of sweetness.
