Padma Lakshmi in Search of America
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Padma Lakshmi shares stories about her childhood in India, her time in Spain and her new show, “Taste the Nation.” Plus, we get a crash course on Parisian cocktail culture from David Lebovitz; we present a new take on the cheeseburger; and Bianca Bosker teaches us about the history and evolution of wine reviews. (Originally aired June 26, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Rosie, the director of education at Milk Street. |
| 0:03.6 | Viola Buitoni and Marika Contaldo Seguso know everyone, everywhere in Italy. |
| 0:08.7 | If you want to visit a tiny Parmesan producer working with a breed of cows almost extinct, |
| 0:13.6 | Viola's friends with him. |
| 0:15.1 | Have you heard about Venice's most famous and glamorous cookie baker on the colorful island of Burano? |
| 0:23.0 | Marika is welcomed into Carmelina's jewel-like shop like family. Marika and Viola have spent their lives cultivating these relationships, |
| 0:28.9 | and now they're willing to share them with you on our new culinary travel trips. With Marika, |
| 0:33.7 | we visit seven islands in the Venetian lagoon to meet farmers, winemakers, bakers, and fishermen. |
| 0:39.1 | And with Viola, we meet her friends and cook all together in Campania and Emilio Romagna. |
| 0:44.2 | There is exactly one spot left on each of the three trips this fall. |
| 0:49.5 | Join us. Head to www.177Milkstreet.com slash tours to see the full itineraries. |
| 0:58.2 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, |
| 1:04.1 | 175Milkstreet.com, to stream our television show, get our recipes, or take our free online |
| 1:10.6 | cooking classes. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:18.0 | This is Mosty Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Padma Lakshmi has had a fascinating |
| 1:25.0 | career, model, TV show host, and author. |
| 1:28.4 | Today we discuss her childhood and her latest TV series, Taste the Nation. |
| 1:32.7 | She also answers the question, can you have it all? |
| 1:37.0 | You can have it all. |
| 1:38.3 | You just can't have it all at once. |
| 1:40.5 | I mean, I often don't have time for an adult personal life. |
| 1:45.5 | You know, I have to be mindful and say, okay, when was the last time I just went to have a glass of wine with my friends or went to dinner not for an event or for work or for a parent-teacher thing, but actually for something that was purely for pleasure. |
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