Los Angeles Times – by Margy Rochlin
On the first day of shooting Padma Lakshmi’s new Hulu docuseries, “Taste the Nation,” the cookbook writer and “Top Chef” host found herself sitting with Shamshiri Grill’s imposing block of an executive chef, Hamid Mosavi, as he spoke of fleeing his home in Iran. “He wasn’t into the interview at first,” says Lakshmi of Mosavi, who, as with many of her interviewees, ended up in tears. “He wasn’t exactly warm and cuddly. Then he just unraveled.”
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