Padma Lakshmi: spices, Top Chef, and Taste the Nation

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Padma Lakshmi is a model, actress and the host of Top Chef on Bravo. She's the person telling everyone to pack their knives and go home. Her latest television series is Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi on Hulu. Each episode, Padma travels to a different part of the United States to highlight an immigrant community. The show celebrates different cultures and their place in American cuisine. The results of the conversations she has often reveal stories that challenge notions of identity, and what it means to be American. We're revisiting our conversation with Padma from 2016. When she joined us she discussed cultural differences she had to reckon with growing up between India and the United States, and her role on Top Chef.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:21.4	Padma Lakshmi is a model actress and the host of TV's TopShack.
0:26.3	She's the person telling everyone to pack their knives and go home.
0:30.0	Her latest television series is Taste the Nation.
0:33.0	Padma Lakshmi on Hula.
0:35.0	Okay, here's another thing I've never cooked before.
0:39.1	Antelope.
0:40.1	I have a couple times.
0:41.1	Just a couple.
0:42.1	Just a couple times.
0:43.1	Okay.
0:44.1	This Antelope actually came from the San Carlos reservation where I learned to forge with
0:48.7	Twyla.
0:49.7	So we have New Mexico, Red Chili, Sea Salt and garlic.
0:54.1	I'm a ride sage and at the end I'm going to add up the sunflower oil.
0:57.4	They'll help me rub that on there.
0:59.9	What is your favorite game meat?
1:01.3	I like Muscarat.
1:02.3	Hacker was my first rodent, so I'm learning still.
1:07.2	Every episode Padma travels to a different part of the United States to highlight an
1:12.0	immigrant community.
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