It wasn’t a quest to find new delicacies or the chance to go on road trips that inspired Padma Lakshmi to launch Taste the Nation on Hulu.
Rather, it was the 2016 election and all the talk about border politics that prompted the executive producer and former co-star of Top Chef to want to launch a show that focused on the intersection of great food and our nation’s diverse population. “I’m an immigrant myself, and I was brought up in different immigrant communities,” Lakshmi said on a panel for her series at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event. “I mean, America is a country that has been built on immigrants and immigrant labor.
So I wanted to do something in my next creative project that utilized everything I had learned from working with the ACLU over the course of several years on this issue.
And, you know, I love food. It’s the language that people are used to hearing me speak about on television, so I thought it’d be a good fit.” Now in its second season, Taste the Nation takes viewers on a journey throughout the U.S.
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