Here’s Why Top Chef’s Lakshmi Wants the Food World Less White

It’s time to rid the food world of the colonialist tactic: steal, rename, claim.

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Padma Lakshmi, the host of the popular food competition show, Top Chef, isn’t shy about her feelings of the white, male-dominated food world.

In a recent New York Times interview, Lakshmi expresses what a culturally, equitable food world would look like…