I've had to learn how to eat on television and not soil my garments.

This is Padma Lakshmi cookbook author writer and host of the TV show Top Chef.

After 10 years hosting that show, she's learned how to eat on camera.

I think you just want to make sure that you open your mouth wide enough,

so that you don't, you know, I mean it's harder for me than it is for for you say.

I mean you have a beard which provides its own obstacles but you know when you have lipstick and

stuff, I try not to wear too bright of lipstick so that you know I'm always going like this

trying to wipe it off the wine glass or something but I think it's just to take a small bite and

eat slowly so you can really absorb the experience because Top Chef is unlike other competition shows

on TV like on the voice you can hear them sing for yourself or on you know so you think you can dance

you can see them dancing but Top Chef you're really relying on the judges on Gail and Tom and Hugh

and I or whoever the fourth chair is to describe the experience with you and carry you with us.

Right. It's very interesting because I never really thought of it that way but it makes

total sense because so much of watching any of those shows is you know you pick your favorite

and you root for the person you root for the contestant that you decided to root for.

And sometimes those judgments are because you like so-and-so's backstory better

but sometimes the judgment is I think that person was the best dancer that's the one deserve to win.

And often we want you to really like or dislike somebody because that means you're invested in the show.

From my point of view I'm the host of the show I don't know their backstory and I don't want to.

There's a reason why Tom and I are not involved in the casting because we don't want to have someone

we're rooting for. You know halfway through the season you know I may root for somebody but it's not

even who some often it's not even the guy who's the best. It's that guy who can't get out of his own

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