Padma Lakshmi: American Food Is Immigrant Food

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Dave addresses the rapid closures of many independent restaurants across the United States (1:07) before bringing in ‘Top Chef’ and ‘Taste the Nation’ host Padma Lakshmi to discuss the inseparable relationship between American cuisine as we know it and immigrant culture (14:19). Make your voice heard to the United States Senate at (202) 224-3121. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.6	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast. Now we're presented by Major
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1:22.2	This week we have Padma Lakshmi of Top Chef and her new DocuSeries on Hulu.
1:29.0	Taste the Nation. A pretty amazing insight into how food is eaten and cooked by immigrants
1:37.0	around the country. I highly recommend it and we're going to talk about making TV her ability to
1:43.8	have a platform that's very different than Top Chef and about the stories that aren't really
1:49.3	being told in food. I am grateful that she joined us and Chris Ying has always
1:56.2	helped me host this podcast today. Before we get into that podcast, I wanted to talk about a few
2:03.8	things. One is we have a restaurant bill that is being sort of voted on by the Senate. I think
2:12.1	the Congress is a giant 120 billion dollar initiative to help restaurants in a variety of ways
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