The Six Degrees of Abdullah Khalifa Al Kaabi
Emirati film director Abdullah Khalifa al Kaabi may be having his film screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, but how can we connect him to a top celebrity chef and two controversial novelists?
March 20, 2011 3:53 by Samuel Potter
Padma Lakshmi
This Indian-American model, actress and cookbook author shocked the world when she announced her marriage to Salman Rushdie. whom she was introduced to first in 1999. Although Lakshmi was the inspiration of the main characters of Rushdie’s novel, Fury, the two filed for divorce in 2007. Since then Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl called Krishna Thea Lakshmi. Mama Lakshmi, who is known for her love of cooking, has made several TV appearances; most recently she was on the HSN Cooks Spring Weekend Event with fellow chef…
