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- 2020
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- HULU
- 2020
- TV-14
- HULU
Summary Padma Lakshmi travels across the United States to look into the connection between food and the community it comes from.
- 2020
- TV-14
- HULU
- 2020
- TV-14
- HULU
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 18, 2020
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Summary Padma Lakshmi travels across the United States to look into the connection between food and the community it comes from.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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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.
Lakshmi’s life experience often parallels the immigrants she befriends on screen, differentiating Taste the Nation from the surface-level interrogations of its food travel show predecessors.
Taste The Nation With Padma Lakshmi won’t make anyone forget about Bourdain and his various shows, but it’s well-shot, Lakshmi is a warm and knowledgeable host, and the food she discovers is both comforting and surprising.
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.
Lakshmi links her personal experience with the areas that she visits, which makes “Taste the Nation” feel both personal and universal.
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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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
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1 Rating
13% Negative
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Production Company:
- part2 pictures
Initial Release Date: Jun 18, 2020
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards
Critics' Choice Real TV Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Television Critics Association Awards
• 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination
