This is a spectacular review of an even spectacular food show. Padma Lakshmi continues in the big shoes of Anthony Bourdain and surfaces hard truths that lie behind the international cuisine being adopted in mainstream America often at the cost of the immigrants that brought it in.
But the episode has already exposed the conflict at the heart of American cooking, the inequity of a culture that gets to selectively take and absorb whatever it wants without having to offer anything significant in return.
