Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

They don't last forever.

To survive, Disney had to grow.

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eder's Digest to show about all things food and dining.

I'm Amanda Koot, editor and chief of

Eater. And I'm Daniel Janine, a producer at Eder.

Amanda, this week we are talking to Padma Lakshmi, the host of one of my

favorite shows of all time, truly, top chef. She's been hosting that show, you know,

what feels like for a very long time. I think 17 or 18 seasons now. And today, I believe, depending on when you are listening to this program, she just had a new

show come out on Hulu called Taste the Nation, where she is going around to different immigrant communities.

She's looking at political issues, societal issues, representation issues,

often through a single dish that they have chosen to represent that community and it came up started with her work with

a.

And it's I mean it's a it's a fun interesting show and you know it's it's always interesting to see different ways that people are incorporating

politics and storytelling into food programming.

I highly recommend you check out the show, but first listen to our interview with Padma.

And after we talked to Padma,

...