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Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - Season 1
The series revolves around Padma Lakshmi, who has decided to take fans on a journey through America. Padma is trying to explore the rich and varied food culture of different immigrant groups, in search of the people who largely shaped this distinct American culture in the food world.
September 18, 1920 in Wuxi, China
26 February 1972, Tehran, Iran
November 19, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
19 April 1982, San Francisco, California, USA
1 September 1970, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
13 August 1933, Delhi, India
June 18, 2020
Another food show? Yawn. And then we watched, and then we cooked.
June 18, 2020
Taste the Nation wants us all to resist that compartmentalization, to embrace the way food can be a gateway towards better understanding one another, while also showing us how much harder that is to put into practice.
June 16, 2020
By focusing specifically on the immigrant groups that have seen their native dishes appropriated, as well as the ways in which they seek to preserve those original traditions, it inches toward an answer more complex than "fast food."
June 18, 2020
Lakshmi links her personal experience with the areas that she visits, which makes "Taste the Nation" feel both personal and universal.