Billionaire buyout king Teddy Forstmann died last November after a struggle with brain cancer. He had been involved with Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, and now it turns out that he left a trust fund to Lakshmi's two-year-old daughter Krishna. more ›

Gopnik geeks, get ready for a double-dose of your favorite New Yorker author at 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side next week, when the food-obsessed writer will sit down with with some serious culinary celebrities for two separate nights of talking and...snacking, naturally. more ›

Theodore Forstmann, the billionaire financier who "helped pioneer leveraged buyouts" and built a fortune, died at age 71 yesterday morning. Forstmann, whose empire included the entertainment management company IMG and was a frequent tabloid name—thanks to relationships with Princess Diana, Elizabeth Hurley and, most recently Padma Lakshmi—had been diagnosed with brain cancer earlier this year. more ›

Apparently, the virtue of Being Hot does not excuse Padma Lakshmi from Being Annoying, as evidenced by her behavior at this week's food-themed Moth reading. more ›

Storytelling club extraordinaire The Moth is kicking off their fall season with a Very Special food-centric show, featuring some big-name chefs and food personalities. more ›

Last week, venture capitalist Adam Dell filed a lawsuit against Padma Lakshmi over custody of their almost-one-year-old daughter. His lawsuit paints a nasty picture of Lakshmi, with the Top Chef star allegedly telling Dell that she found him to be "unambitious" and that she was also sleeping with billionaire Teddy Forstmann (and hoped Forstmann was the baby's father). Today, the Post digs up what might just be called Godwin's Law of Paternity. more ›

Yesterday the Post gave us Adam Dell's side of Padma Lakshmi's baby daddy drama and today People gives us the Top Chef host's side (or, rather, her "friends" and lawyer's side). The short of it? She is "devastated" about the lawsuit from the father of her almost one-year-old daughter. more ›

Thanks to the New York Post's two-fer today, we've gotten a good long glimpse into Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi's baby daddy troubles. You see, according to a new suit, though Adam Dell, brother to Dell computers empire founder Michael, is the biological father of 11-month-old daughter Krishna he just gets no respect from the former Mrs. Salman Rushdie. more ›

Acclaimed novelist Sir Salman Rushdie faced a fatwah, so of course he was going to strike back at Page Six. Yesterday, the Post's gossip section quoted his ex Pia Glenn, who claimed Rushdie was still hung up on ex-wife Padma Lakshmi (well, who wouldn't be) and that he stole a year from Glenn's life. Today, Page Six offers Rushdie's version, which begins: "The reason I broke up with Pia Glenn is that I came to feel that she's an unstable person who carries around a large, radioactive bucket of stress wherever she goes. It was just exhausting to deal with." more ›

Top Chef fever is spreading like salmonella, and who among us can resist the hype, especially considering that the new season of Top Chef, premiering next month, was filmed here in NYC? Last week the Top Chef Truck concluded its tour in Union Square with former cheftestants Richard Blais and Andrew D'Ambrosi cooking for us in the tractor trailer's kitchen. And yesterday a slew of Top Chef stars, past and future, were wrangled for cooking demos and flesh-pressing at the Taste of the Five Boroughs fundraiser for City Harvest. Blogger Life Vicarious was on the scene, which turned into a bloodbath:

We did find Andrew D'Ambrosi at his knife skills demo across Vanderbilt Hall where he was proud to represent the restaurant "rockin' the three stars." And how he represented! Showcasing his non-sissy knife skills at breakneck speed, he started supreming fruit before carving into his finger, began bleeding, turned to the demo sinks disappointed to discover they're just props, was first handed paper towels, then a bandage, then finally left the stage as an EMT arrived, and wanting to shift the focus and cameras away from him and back to his demo partner Spike Mendelsohn he went backstage to be tended by the EMT. (We can't even imagine how an actual sissy would have handled this!)

The Top Chef Miami finale is upon us and we're going to weigh in with some thoughts. There will be spoilers, but they'll be after the jump. more ›

What’s worth watching on food-related TV this week? Here’s the breakdown: more ›

Jane Seymour was Henry VIII's third wife. more ›

With 250 guests, the Lakshmi-Rushdie nuptials included Lou Reed, Steve Martin, Tina Brown, Ismail Merchant, Julie Taymor, Jay McInerney, and Diane von Furstenburg. The Wetlaufer-Welch affair had 75 guests - Vernon Jordan and Matt Lauer among them. Advantage: Lakshmi-Rushdie, especially because their wedding was in New York City, but the Wetlaufer-Welch wedding probably had a better goodie bag. more ›