2020 Visions: Hulu brought travel TV into the post-Bourdain future
Salt Fat Acid Heat and The Chef Show, in 2019. But things just weren’t the same. Not until 2020, when two new travel series debuted that made tentative steps toward filling that unfillable void—and not on Netflix, either. Taste The Nation With Padma Lakshmi debuted first, dropping the entirety of its 10-episode first season on Hulu on June 18. Lakshmi, like Bourdain, is a name that needs no introduction for anyone with even a passing interest in the subject matter: She’s been a judge on for 14 years now, not to mention her multiple cookbooks and innumerable talk show appearances. But ...