Taste the Nation and Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi joins Brad to discuss food’s transcendent power to bring people together across cultures. Padma opens up about her latest cookbook, Padma's All American, and shares exclusive details on building her new, high-caliber cooking competition show, America's Culinary Cup, designed to be the "World Series of Cooking." Brad and Padma reminisce on some of the best hidden gems for finding rare spices in the city. 

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - BRAD RANT

6:48 - BRAD ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS

16:55 - INTRODUCING PADMA LAKSHMI

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