‘Top Chef’ Alum Padma Lakshmi Blasts JD Vance’s Ranch Dressing Dish He Made for Vegetarian Wife Usha

Padma Lakshmi finds one of Vice President JD Vance‘s kitchen concoctions less than appetizing.

“There’s so many reasons to hate JD Vance, I didn’t think we needed a culinary one. It’s so bad,” the former Top Chef host, 55, said on The Daily Show, blasting a dish the politician, 41, described cooking for his wife, 40, during an interview with FOX News earlier this month.

“Usha is a vegetarian, and I am not. So, I’m thinking to myself, what does a vegetarian eat? Vegetables, dairy, and bread,” JD explained, revealing that he ended up baking a “disgusting,” “inedible” meal of crescent rolls topped with vegetables and ranch dressing.

The cookbook author was disgusted as well. “He’s married an Indian woman, so she comes from this very deep, vast culinary tradition, you know, and he’s giving her, what was it, ranch dressing? Who bakes ranch dressing?” Lakshmi ranted.

“Also, he’s like, ‘She’s a vegetarian. She only eats bread, vegetables, and dairy.’ You’ve been married to this person for over a decade, right?” she continued. “And we eat lots of things, right? Rice, lentils, beans, squash, all this stuff.”

“But, I mean, maybe he knows what she likes because she doesn’t really have good taste,” the Emmy-nominated TV personality added.

JD admitted that it was “amazing that the relationship lasted” after he first cooked for Usha, whom he wed in 2014, but insisted he’s now “pretty good” in the kitchen.