Padma Lakshmi on How Immigration Intersects With Hulu’s ‘Taste the Nation’
variety.comShalini Dore Features News Editor As the second season of Hulu’s “Taste the Nation” starts streaming May 5, executive producer and host Padma Lakshmi again takes viewers among the immigrant communities in the U.S.
via their taste buds. Lakshmi spoke with Variety for AAPI Month ahead of the show’s season premiere. She says she and her team get lots of invitations from around the country asking them to visit and highlight the communities.
This season they visit Puerto Rico, the Appalachians, the Afghan community in Washington, D.C., as well as Filipinos in the Bay Area. “We don’t just go into a community, visit them and we’re out and then rinse and repeat in the next town,” she says. “We’re looking at the larger issue of immigration in the country that is so integral to the foundation of our modern republic but also through the ever-evolving thing that is America.
Immigration is so uniquely important to this country out of all the countries in the world and it’s what has made it its superpower.” In Puerto Rico, they examine “food sovereignty,” as the cost of produce is high, as well as the U.S.
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