'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi working on picture book

Mark Cuban, 61, is supporting Kanye West‘s potential presidential run — sort-of. “If there was Rank Choice voting available and @kanyewest was on the ballot with @JoeBiden and @realDonaldTrump, I would have @kanyewest ahead of @realDonaldTrump,” the billionaire tweeted on Saturday, July 4, effectively saying Donald Trump, 73, would be his last choice out of the three.

Padma Lakshmi has been part of the professional food industry for more than two decades but had yet to see anything highlighting immigrants. So, she created it with Taste the Nation.“I’m always interested in the kind of food and yet, in mainstream media, we have not really had this kind of coverage,” Lakshmi, 49, tells Us Weekly in the latest issue.

Padma Lakshmi is standing up for women and minorities who work in the food industry.

Padma Lakshmi is doing everything she can to change how American food is defined. She’d like to also see some changes in the culinary world — and she can’t do it alone.“The professional food industry is one of the most male-dominated sectors of our society.

James Beard award-winning Karen Akunowicz is one of the many fan favorites who hail from the land of Top Chef. The fiercely amazing culinarian won our hearts when she first competed on the show’s 13th season before she unpacked her knives once more for its second All-Stars version in 2020.

Audrey Cleo Yap Padma Lakshmi has played host to more than a few good meals as she fronts Bravo’s “Top Chef,” and executive produces and hosts Hulu’s “Taste the Nation.” But right now, she is mourning the loss of director Joel Schumacher.

Padma Lakshmi‘s unabashed love of food is clear in everything she eats in a day. While the Love, Loss, and What We Ate author does have a couple of staples in her diet, such as tea and apples with peanut butter, her eating regimen varies depending on whether or not she’s filming Top Chef.When she’s working on the Bravo show, for example, Lakshmi, 49, tries not to eat too much food.

, drew to a close in classic fashion, with the final three contestants laying it all on the line as they tried to impress the judges, including host Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, by cooking the best meal of their lives.

Padma Lakshmi is no stranger to speaking her mind. As the Emmy-nominated host of, Bravo’s reality food competition, which is now in its 17th season, she’s guided viewers through quick fires and elimination challenges all the while letting everyone know just what she thinks of the contestants’ various dishes.

Taste the Nation, couldn’t come at a better time.

Top Chef has crowned 16 winners since it debuted in March 2006, including Ilan Hall, Stephanie Izard, Joe Flamm and more. Now in its seventeenth cycle — an all-stars season set in Los Angeles — the Bravo hit shows no signs of slowing down.However, Top Chef has changed and evolved over the years.

What’s your family’s story of immigration?My mom was escaping an abusive marriage in India; she had a nursing degree, which was in high demand, so she came over on a professional visa and later became the head nurse of radiation therapy at Sloan Kettering. She came to the U.S.

Amid the civil unrest that has flared in the US cities after the death of George Floyd, Padma Lakshmi opened up about discussing the issue of racism with her 10-year-old daughter Krishna. Ever since Floyd died after police officer Derek Chauvin handcuffed him and kneeled on his neck rendering him unable to breathe, people have been openly protesting against racial injustice in large numbers.