Padma, When She Sizzles



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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is divorcing Salman Rushdie—and emerging as a foodie goddess. For the December issue, she posed for photographer Alexi Lubomirski at Freemans restaurant, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Here are five Web-exclusive shots, capped off with a bonus image from the issue. Related: “A Taste of Fame,” by Nancy Jo Sales. Plus: Video from the photo shoot.