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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Salman Rushdie's eye on celebrity 'fatwas' [1]
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Date: 2025-07-24
Salman Rushdie’s Chautauqua assailant was sentenced recently, as Trump was assigned a fatwa.
Ayatollah Khomeini's most publicized fatwa was the proclamation condemning Salman Rushdie to death for his novel The Satanic Verses . [5] Khomeini himself did not call this proclamation a fatwa, and some scholars have argued that it did not qualify as one, since in Islamic legal theory only a court can decide whether an accused is guilty. [1] [24] However, after the proclamation was presented as a fatwa in Western press, this characterization was widely accepted by both its critics and its supporters, [1] [24] and the Rushdie Affair is credited with bringing the institution of fatwa to world attention. [7] Together with later militant fatwas, it has contributed to the popular misconception of the fatwa as a religious death warrant. [3]
The guy who blinded Rushdie in one eye and almost took his life — and who didn't even read the damn book he tried to kill him over! — says Rushdie is a "bully." Unreal. www.newser.com/article/d9da... [image or embed]
Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh, a Lebanese man, died in London on August 3, 1989. He was preparing a bomb to assassinate Salman Rushdie when it exploded prematurely. This came after Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. [image or embed]
In 2016, Lakshmi revealed several details about her marriage to Rushdie and relationships with other notable men, including Ted Forstmann, the CEO of the media empire IMG, and venture capitalist Adam Dell, per New York Daily News. Though Lakshmi spoke about many intimate details of their relationship, she claims that she and Rushdie are now friends. "In many ways, I consider him still part of my family," Lakshmi told People Magazine. "I think if you really fall in love with someone, even if you fall out of love with them, you still must have some little portion, some little imprint, on your heart that can never be extinguished or erased."
After Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie got married in 2004, the problems in their marriage quickly became impossible to ignore. While it was undiagnosed at the time, Lakshmi's endometriosis left her bedridden with chronic pain and made it difficult for the pair to have sex. According to People Magazine, Rushdie's constant need for sexual intimacy directly collided with her health. At one point, Rushdie became so angry about this lack of intimacy in their marriage that he called his relationship with Lakshmi a "bad investment." Even after she was diagnosed with endometriosis and underwent operations to ease her symptoms, Rushdie often left on trips while she was still recovering from these various operations. Per Today, Lakshmi divorced Rushdie just three years after they were married, in 2007.
Over the years, I appreciate you always holding chefs accountable for their badly cooked rice. It happens so often.
I know! Like 40% of the human race eats it every day. It’s because most of the fine-dining restaurants in North America are built on Western cuisine and French technique. That’s also what I’m purposefully highlighting in “Taste the Nation,” which was born out of all of my frustrations, hopes, loyalties, advocacies and political point of view. Food is emotional, with so much heritage and culture and family ties, but it’s also deeply connected to history, politics, economics and the environment.
I wanted to be as serious about the food as I am on “Top Chef” while exploring all of that; I wanted to go to where it’s being made and see all of the attachments in its natural environment. But I don’t want every episode to just be, “Go to this community, meet everyone and talk about their food, and then rinse and repeat.” That’s good for four or five seasons max. I want to be doing this show for as long as I did “Top Chef.” It’s “Taste the Nation” but it could be any nation; I want to go international, like to Berlin, where there’s a huge Turkish immigrant community. There’s more migration now than any other time in our history, and I want to be at the forefront of that.
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The Top Chef set has been series host Padma Lakshmi‘s stomping grounds since she first joined in 2006 during its second season. But after 17 years and nearly 20 seasons, her time to pack her knives and go has arrived. “After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave Top Chef,” Lakshmi shared in a statement posted to social media.
“Having completed a glorious 20th season as host and executive producer, I am extremely proud to have been part of building such a successful show and of the impact it has had on the worlds of television and food,” she continued. “After 17 years, many of the cast and crew are like family to me and I will miss working alongside them dearly.”
Lakshmi’s work on Top Chef has earned her multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. Her Hulu docuseries Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, on which she also serves as host and executive producer, premiered in 2020. Its second season arrived last month with 10 new episodes.
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