{"id":701,"date":"2009-04-14T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:18:06","slug":"top-chefs-padma-lakshmi-whores-herself-for-a-burger-and-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/04\/top-chefs-padma-lakshmi-whores-herself-for-a-burger-and-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Chef&#8217;s Padma Lakshmi whores herself for a burger and some $$$."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this video in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/broadsheet\/feature\/2009\/04\/14\/fast_meat\/index.html\">Salon.com<\/a> and I cannot get over the shock of seeing Padma Lakshmi, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/top-chef\">Top Chef<\/a> fame selling herself in this commercial for Carl&#8217;s Junior (or another burger company, I can&#8217;t imagine anyone paying attention to what the product actually is).  If you are a guy, you&#8217;ll probably think the video is really hot.  As a woman I find it repulsive.  Doesn&#8217;t she make enough money on Top Chef, modeling and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1602860068?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1602860068\">writing cookbooks<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1602860068\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, that she also needs to cheapen herself in a commercial like this?<br \/>\nI also just heard that she is Salman Rushdie&#8217;s ex-wife &#8211; which doesn&#8217;t surprise me, the guy may be a great writer, but he&#8217;s also a publicity whore.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nSXjnv8K71k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nSXjnv8K71k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this video in Salon.com and I cannot get over the shock of seeing Padma Lakshmi, of Top Chef fame selling herself in this commercial for Carl&#8217;s Junior (or another burger company, I can&#8217;t imagine anyone paying attention to what the product actually is). If you are a guy, you&#8217;ll probably think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}