Padma Lakshmi: Eater or Eaten of the Year?

PadmaLakshmi.jpg

Endless Simmer readers aren’t taken in by Padma Lakshmi’s claims to foodie fabulousness, despite her numerous talents:

Rarely has someone so deftly turned D-list celebrity into full fledged stardom merely by putting expensive things in her mouth week after week.

Well, at least on basic cable for a family audience.

Tony Bourdain is winning their Eater of the Year. He puts things in his mouth, too.

(If the contest was for Eaten of the Year, we know who’d win.)

MEDIABISTRO EVENTS

Get Social Media Marketing Secrets from Experts

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.