Top chef’s Padma Lakshmi poses nude

A few weeks ago, I posted about Padma Lakshmi’s very sensual commercial for Carl’s Junior. As a straight male, I reported that even though I wished she had used her good looks to sell artisan cheese instead of hamburgers dripping with sauce, the commercial was pretty pleasant to the eyes.

Today, her nude photos for Allure magazine made me realize the cookbook author is not done pleasing eyes.

It is now accepted that to be a good celebrity chef, you must be as photogenic as possible and still know how to cook. From now on, it could be that you also have to be a sex symbol to stay in the green room.