| HULU | Season Premiere Date: June 18, 2020 |
Summary:
Padma Lakshmi travels across the United States to look into the connection between food and the community it comes from.
Genre(s):
Travel, Food & Cooking
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Season 1 Episodes
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Jun 18, 2020
Jun 19, 2020
It's a series that deftly breaks form from the traditional culinary travelogue again and again. In some food shows, it seems like hosts are stretching to make a political point (or they go out of their way to skirt around it). Lakshmi, instead, confronts it head-on. ... Lakshmi has real presence here.
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Jun 24, 2020
Jul 9, 2020
Lakshmi’s flirtatious manner, her unquenchable glamour, allow her to Trojan-horse Taste the Nation’s true intentions for viewers who might be expecting a vaguely patriotic travelogue through America’s most iconic meals. What she’s offering instead is one of the most fascinating food series to emerge in recent years: a ruthless indictment of how a nation’s cultural heritage has been constructed out of the people and traditions that it has consistently and brutally rejected.
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Jun 30, 2020
Jun 12, 2020
While Taste The Nation is somewhat slicker in presentation than those shows[Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat, and David Chang’s Ugly Delicious], it benefits from its hyper-focus. ... Lakshmi proves an amiable guide through the episodes, even if her years of hosting have shaven off some of her rough edges.
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