Padma Lakshmi has been quite the busy lady this week as she promotes season 15 on Top Chef.
On Thursday the culinary expert was seen stopping by NBC for a TV appearance. The former supermodel looked lovely in a tight pink dress under a long coat.
The day before the 47-year-old ex-wife of author Salman Rushdie puckered up with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
A show to plug: Padma Lakshmi has been busy as she promotes season 15 on Top Chef. On Thursday the culinary expert was seen stopping by NBC for a TV appearance
Le look de Lakshmi: The former catwalker added a fur-trimmed black coat and short shiny black boots that matched nicely with her black feed purse
The Chennai, India native looked in great shape in the unforgiving dress that reached down to her shins.
The former catwalker added a fur-trimmed black coat and short shiny black boots that matched nicely with her black feed purse.
And the cover girl wore her hair down and added a smart-looking gold pendant around her neck.
Chic on the street: The Chennai, India native looked in great shape in the unforgiving dress that reached down to her shins
The past: Padma has often appeared on the Today show to show off her impressive cooking skills. Last week she shared her sadness over her ‘friend’ Matt Lauer being fired from the show due to his alleged sexual assaults on staffers
Padma has often appeared on the Today show to show off her impressive cooking skills.
Last week she shared her sadness over her ‘friend’ Matt Lauer being fired from the show due to his alleged sexual assaults on staffers.
This sighting comes after she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she cooked Christmas treats for the comedienne.
The cover girl posed with Ellen, giving her best red pout.
Pals: This sighting comes after she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres show where she cooked for the comedienne
This week she also talked to SheKnows about female chefs.
‘You can go to school all you want, but at the end of the day, being a chef means being on your feet, being in your kitchen, working with your hands elbow-to-elbow with your kitchen staff.
‘Whether you’re a lowly commis [apprentice] that’s chopping the vegetables, the saucier [cooks sauces], the poissonnier [cooks fish dishes], whomever. You are on your feet, the hours are terrible, and to be pregnant and breaking down a side of beef is tough.
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‘It’s a professional lifestyle that’s not conducive to a lot of aspects of womanhood.
‘But that being said, there are some great female chefs, like Barbara Lynch, Suzanne Goin, April Bloomfield, Dominique Crenn and a bunch of others that do do it, and incredibly well. But the industry does not make it easy for them to do it well.’
Lakshmi also said gender inequality is worldwide.
‘It’s the culture of the society. Most of the food made on this planet is made by women. We certainly know how to do it,’ she said.
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‘So, why on the professional level are the restaurants dominated by men? It has to do with the nature of commerce more than the nature of the specific profession.
‘It also has to with ownership. It’s so deep and subtle and devious, these preconceptions and prejudices we have about women owning businesses and women being able to have agency.
‘It has more to do with societal factors rather than the kitchen specifically. Because let’s be clear: In every kitchen and in every home around the world, it’s mostly the women who are doing the cooking.’