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PADMA LAKSHMI is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed Hulu series Taste the Nation, and served as host and executive producer of Bravo’s Top Chef. She is co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America and an ACLU Artist Ambassador for immigrants’ rights and women’s rights. She is the author of Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs, her New York Times best-selling memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate, and the best-selling children’s book Tomatoes for Neela.
W. Kamau Bell is a stand-up comedian, director, and producer. For seven seasons, he was the host and executive producer of the five-time Emmy Award-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America. He won a Peabody Award for his Showtime docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby. Bell is also the author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell and the co-author of Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book and Who Is Government. Most recently, he directed and produced the HBO documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed.
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