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For their latest EP, The Third Gleam, the Avett Brothers leave everything behind but their songs and a couple of acoustic guitars, a bass, and a banjo. I'd also love to go to Alaska. A childhood photo of Lakshmi with her mom, who cooks alongside her in the "Taste the Nation" episode focused on Indian cuisine in New York. And so I think that went very deep.
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi began collecting cookbooks and recipes in her teens. In the new Hulu series, Taste the Nation, she travels the country to learn how foods from different cultures contributed to American cuisine.
And I remember thinking, "Oh, my God. I really didn't start to feel attractive until I went to Europe. I knew that something bad happened and that I should hide it. And my impression was that I spoke up about what happened to me and I was sent away.
Eater, Lakshmi explained that Taste the Nation came about as a result of having worked with the American Civil Liberties Union after the election of Donald Trump in early 2017. I'm so close to my grandparents because not only did I live with them for that year and a half or two years as a toddler, every summer my mother sent me back for three months to India.
Featuring the beautiful photography of a travelogue and the cheerful tone of a cooking show, Taste the Nation also serves as a necessary history lesson on slavery, colonialism, immigration and its interrelated processes of assimilation, displacement, and resistance -- all of which have helped construct the American nation. I don't know what would have happened if I had. And along her journey, Lakshmi points out that foods now assumed to be American have immigrant roots. She had a great, great palate and sense of cooking. In her 10-episode series streaming on Hulu, the cookbook author, model and longtime "Top Chef" host is tackling a tough question. They're embarrassed or they think that it's going to be ridiculed or used against them.
So I got really good at covering it with makeup, but still, it didn't dawn on me that I could actually make a living from my looks. If there's one complaint to be had about Taste the Nation, it's the relentless optimism about the possibilities of food to overcome the deeply entrenched ideologies of racism and xenophobia.
And it is. Afro Transcendentalist Laraaji prepares his second album of 2020, the meditative Moon Piano, recorded inside a Brooklyn church. But I don't think my 16-year-old self identified that as date rape until later. We were cut out of the car by something called the jaws of life, which are big, huge metal cutters.