Padma Lakshmi Does Standup
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After 17 years hosting Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi was ready for something new. This week, she fills us in on her recent endeavors: a new book, an original culinary competition show and standup comedy. Plus, Elyse Inamine celebrates a cult-favorite mayonnaise, Kewpie; and Mariena Mercer Boarini, Master Mixologist for Wynn Resorts North America, shares why martinis are the cocktail of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, Chris Kimball here. Sola Elwhaley is coming to Milk Street Radio to answer your cooking questions soon. |
| 0:06.9 | If you need new recipes or culinary inspiration, we're here to help, or you can try to stump me in Sola with your toughest culinary mystery, |
| 0:14.8 | like why your pie exploded or why your soup tastes just well off. |
| 0:19.1 | Email us at Questions at MilkstreetRadio.com. One more time, that's Questions at Milkstreetradio.com. One more time, |
| 0:23.0 | that's Questions at Milkstreetradio.com and we'll be in touch. This is Milkstreet Radio from |
| 0:33.2 | PRX and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:44.3 | After 17 years on Top Chef, Podmalakshmi unlocked the secret to being a great TV host. |
| 0:48.8 | A lot of it is just being a good host like you would at a dinner party. |
| 0:51.7 | Make sure the food comes down at the right time. |
| 0:54.0 | Make sure everybody meets everybody, |
| 0:54.2 | everybody gets to talk. |
| 0:55.7 | But now she's ready to take on new challenges, |
| 0:58.4 | like creating a whole new culinary competition show. |
| 1:01.5 | I wanted to do things differently |
| 1:03.3 | because I thought that my genre of competitive cooking |
| 1:06.6 | needed a refresh. |
| 1:07.7 | And she's doing stand-up comedy. |
| 1:10.2 | It's excruciating and exhilarating, but mostly |
| 1:13.7 | excruciating. The evolution of Padmalakshmi that's coming up later in the show. But first, |
| 1:21.3 | I'm joined by Elise Inamene. She wrote the cookbook for the love of Cupy to celebrate 100 years |
| 1:27.4 | of the cult favorite mayonnaise. |
| 1:30.2 | Elise, welcome to Milk Street. |
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