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3 weeks agoAfter 'Top Chef,' Padma Lakshmi Wants to Show How People Really Eat
Immigrant culinary traditions shape American identity and are preserved through storytelling, recipes, and food-focused media.
Most aspiring chefs break into the biz washing dishes in bustling restaurant kitchens, but for Vinh Nguyen, that education began at home. "My family and I made friends with everybody, mostly because of my mom's cooking," Vinh said during a recent phone interview. "My mom would make food and bring it over unabashedly to neighbors' houses, so being the youngest one, I always followed her in the kitchen like I was her baby sous chef."
Through his beloved Netflixseries, Rosenthal hopes to inspire viewers to think about these towns differently. Initially, he was skeptical about Orlando as a culinary destination. "I said, really? Come on," he admits. "But once I got there, and saw the incredible diversity, it just clicked. Puerto Rican, Filipino, soul food, ramen ... it's all there. And it's not just good, it's shockingly good."