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SEASON
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - Season 1
The reality series begins with a special experience by hostess Padma Lakshmi, a journey through America. Padma is trying to explore the rich and varied food culture of different immigrant groups, in search of people who have shaped hugely what is American food and those different everyday experiences of these distinct foods.
September 18, 1920 in Wuxi, China
13 August 1933, Delhi, India
1 September 1970, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
19 April 1982, San Francisco, California, USA
November 19, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
26 February 1972, Tehran, Iran
June 18, 2020
Lakshmi links her personal experience with the areas that she visits, which makes "Taste the Nation" feel both personal and universal.
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
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 18, 2020
Another food show? Yawn. And then we watched, and then we cooked.
