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Padma Lakshmi: In the Kitchen for Krishna

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Padma Lakshmi knows a thing or two about good food, and she’s sharing that love with her 1-year-old daughter, Krishna Thea.

“I make all her food. She doesn’t eat baby food,” the Top Chef judge, 40, told PEOPLE at the National Education Association’s 14th Annual Read Across America Day in Washington, D.C. “Lentils and rice, that’s her favorite. And she loves black-eyed peas.”

When it comes to whipping up meals for her daughter, the cookbook author keeps it simple.

“You just boil them with a little salt, water, onion, rice and carrots,” says Lakshmi. “It’s really easy to cook for children because they’re very simple in their tastes and they’re very grateful. She’s never gotten bottled baby food.”
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Wipeout‘s John Henson Prepares For Fatherhood

Contestants face many obstacles on ABC’s Wipeout, from Big Balls to the final Wipeout Zone, to earn their $50,000 prize. For co-host John Henson and his wife, comedienne Jill Benjamin, learning about the pending birth of their first child was a reward unto itself.

“I lost my mother five weeks before the wedding [in June] after a very prolonged illness,” Henson tells PEOPLE. “We were planning on having a honeymoon baby and after we lost my mom, it was one of those moments where my wife and I talked and said, ‘Gee, life is short and you’re not promised tomorrow, and what different does five weeks make?’”

So the couple started trying and “Sure enough, first time out of the box, we got pregnant,” Henson, 42, says, “and I would really like to think my mom had a hand in that.”

Henson and Benjamin are expecting a son to arrive this month. “We are so excited,” he says.

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