EPISODE
SEASON
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi - Season 1
In this series, Padma Lakshmi accompanies the masses on a journey through America, while she leads a range of different missions along the way. Padma is embarking on her journey in order to explore the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups, as she confronts the people who largely shaped what American food is.
September 18, 1920 in Wuxi, China
19 April 1982, San Francisco, California, USA
26 February 1972, Tehran, Iran
November 19, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
13 August 1933, Delhi, India
1 September 1970, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
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.
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."
