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Padma Lakshmi is definitely a lady of style. As a number of the beloved food-competition sequence “Prime Chef” and the star of the culinary docuseries “Style the Nation,” she’s spent practically 20 years artfully conveying—and critiquing—flavors and aromas for an viewers. Earlier than that, she was a vogue author and mannequin, cultivating her personal sense of what’s value carrying and seeing. And she or he isn’t completed evolving: she’s lately begun performing standup comedy, an artwork type with a notoriously steep studying curve. In a reside taping at The New Yorker Pageant, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss with Lakshmi concerning the distinction between discernment and pickiness, how journey has expanded her style, and her method to rendering judgement on TV. “I see my job as serving to,” Lakshmi says. “I see my job as being the particular person within the kitchen who’s saying, ‘Does this want a bit of salt?’ ”
Learn, watch, and pay attention with the critics:
“Prime Chef” (2006-)
“Style the Nation” (2020-23)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (2009-)
“American Idol” (2002-)
“Mission Runway” (2004-)
“Padma’s All American,” by Padma Lakshmi
“Padma Lakshmi Walks Right into a Bar,” by Helen Rosner (The New Yorker)
“Artwork within the Age of Synthetic Intelligence” (The New Yorker)
Dijon’s “Child”
“Frankenstein” (2025)
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