Courtesy Nikki Cascone
It’s a boy for Top Chef alum Nikki Cascone!
The chef and husband Brad Grossman welcomed their first child, son Jackson Robert Grossman, at 3:17 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 3 in New York City, her rep tells People exclusively.
The baby boy, whom the couple plan to call Jax, weighed in at 7 lbs., 4 oz. and is 19 inches long.
“We both love the name Jackson from one of our favorite shows, Sons of Anarchy, and his middle name is after my stepdad who died of cancer a few years ago,” Cascone explains.
“We had a natural childbirth...
It’s a boy for Top Chef alum Nikki Cascone!
The chef and husband Brad Grossman welcomed their first child, son Jackson Robert Grossman, at 3:17 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 3 in New York City, her rep tells People exclusively.
The baby boy, whom the couple plan to call Jax, weighed in at 7 lbs., 4 oz. and is 19 inches long.
“We both love the name Jackson from one of our favorite shows, Sons of Anarchy, and his middle name is after my stepdad who died of cancer a few years ago,” Cascone explains.
“We had a natural childbirth...
- 1/5/2011
- by Sarah
- People - CelebrityBabies
Courtesy Nikki Cascone
Chef Nikki Cascone has a bun in the oven!
The Top Chef alum and husband Brad Grossman are expecting their first child — a boy — in January, she tells People.
“Having suffered from endometriosis for several years, we feel so blessed and anxious for his arrival,” the season four contestant adds.
Fortunately, the couple will have plenty to keep themselves busy in the interim: This fall, they have plans to open Octavia’s Porch — their second restaurant in New York City.
Chef Nikki Cascone has a bun in the oven!
The Top Chef alum and husband Brad Grossman are expecting their first child — a boy — in January, she tells People.
“Having suffered from endometriosis for several years, we feel so blessed and anxious for his arrival,” the season four contestant adds.
Fortunately, the couple will have plenty to keep themselves busy in the interim: This fall, they have plans to open Octavia’s Porch — their second restaurant in New York City.
- 9/14/2010
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
For Top Chef's season 4 competitors, news of Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy came as no surprise. Spike Mendelsohn recalls that when another contestant, Antonia Lofaso, started to cry because she missed her daughter, "out of nowhere, Padma started to tear up also. It signified something to us." But for Lakshmi, 39, conceiving a child was the fulfillment of a wish she once thought would be impossible. Earlier this year the cookbook author, jewelry designer and actress co-founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America, and revealed that she had undergone two surgeries for endometriosis. The condition, in which tissues lining the uterus grow outside the uterus,...
- 10/13/2009
- by Lisa Ingrassia
- PEOPLE.com
One of Top Chef's most spirited contestants, Nikki Cascone, got engaged to her long time boyfriend and partner, Brad Grossman, over the holidays. "I'm beyond happy," Cascone, 36, tells People exclusively. "My only issue is that I can't cook with my engagement ring on!" Grossman, 31, proposed while Cascone was, appropriately, cooking him dinner. "I tied the ring around one of the dogs' necks and tried to get him to run over to Nikki ... but that wasn't happening ... so in the end I told Nikki to go see the dog," he says.The couple co-owns 24 Prince, a popular restaurant in SoHo.
- 1/5/2009
- by Alyssa Shelasky
- PEOPLE.com
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