Padma Lakshmi's Trojan Horse; Plus, is Michael Jackson un-cancellable?

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

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Summary

Brittany Luse talks to Padma Lakshmi about the second season of her series Taste The Nation. They get into what is "American food" from apple pies (spoiler: nothing in an apple pie is from here) to daal and pancakes. Then Brittany sits down with the hosts of the new investigative podcast Think Twice. Jay Smooth and Leon Neyfakh dive into the history of Michael Jackson to show how he controlled his narrative and to answer the question: is Michael Jackson too famous to cancel?

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:05.6	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:06.8	And my first guest today, you might know her as the host of Bravo's Top Chef.
0:11.6	Or as one of this year's time 100 honorees.
0:15.0	And now, Padma Lakshmi is bringing us a top tier food travel show set in our own backyard.
0:22.2	Taste the nation on Hulu.
0:24.4	We were lucky enough to have like 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
0:27.7	I don't think I've gotten 100% anything in my life.
0:30.1	I'm very happy about that.
0:32.9	So are my relatives in India.
0:35.9	Taste the nation just dropped its second season.
0:39.1	It's an American food travel show, but it asks a very pointed question.
0:44.3	What even is American food?
0:47.3	Padma focuses mainly on the food of immigrant communities in the US.
0:51.5	She tastes dishes from Filipino communities in the Bay area, Nigerians in Texas,
0:56.7	and a Greek enclave in Florida.
0:59.3	She argues all these different kinds of foods are just as American as apple pie.
1:04.3	Or any other food that we might think of as not ethnic.
1:08.1	White people food we think of as hot dogs and apple pie and meatloaf, you know.
1:12.9	Not one ingredient in apple pies and indigenous North America.
1:17.1	Not the apples, not the flour, not the butter or lard, not the cinnamon,
1:21.5	not the sugar, not the nutmeg.
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