Padma Lakshmi has stepped away from 'Top Chef' and hasn't heard if Hulu is renewing 'Taste the Nation.' But she has three Emmy nominations, plus a cookbook on the way.
The ‘Taste the Nation’ host travels the U.S. to explore different cultural influences and traditions.Nothing is truly original. Everything comes from something else and was taught to you by someone else. The alchemy of originality is that you distill all the influences we have into something that’s uniquely funneled through your own palate and experience. That, to me, is the most exciting part of cooking. And it’s also to me the most exciting part of “Top Chef.
I was raised as a latchkey kid by a single mom who was a nurse and had to come home after being on her feet all day at the hospital, and make something that was nutritious, inexpensive and quick for us to eat. I saw her make a traditional South Indian dish called upma with a box of Cream of Wheat, because she couldn’t hike her butt all the way to Jackson Heights and get the real ragi [finger millet].
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