TasteTheNation shows us PadmaLakshmi’s own experience in growing up as an immigrant in America as she explores food cultures across the country.
for immigrants’ rights and women’s rights flowing the 2016 presidential election. With the series, she wanted to show the larger American public what it’s like to be an immigrant in this country.
Taking advantage of her own platform, she saw the series as an opportunity to entertain as well as inform. “Because I was convinced that if I could just make the bigger American TV public aware of what it was like on the ground for these people in their daily life, that it would show them that their humanity was no lesser than [anybody else’s],” she says. Ugly Delicious
Her exploration of various cultures around the country also sees her experiencing firsthand how they cultivate their food, often leading to new adventures for the food personality. “I'd never been to a Native American reservation. I'd never forged for my own meal. I certainly have never eaten a rodent. I'd never gone snorkeling like that in the ocean,” she says, with the last comment referring to the finale when she learns about the Japanese culture of Hawaii.
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