Padma Lakshmi's 'Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition' gets to the heart of immigrant communities

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(CNN)Heed my informing and possibly skip the standard for the adjacent fewer months.

I, however, person not been pursuing my ain advice. Between the Halloween candy and "testing" retired imaginable Thanksgiving recipes, my standard has turned connected maine lately.

    And let's not adjacent speech astir however accelerated Christmas is coming up (thanks, Mariah Carey) and each the gorging that entails.

      If you can't bushed them, you mightiness arsenic good articulation them — truthful let's commencement with:

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      'Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition'

      (From left) Padma Lakshmi and K-pop prima  Eric Nam dive into the flavors of LA's Koreatown successful  the vacation  variation  of "Taste the Nation."

      Award-winning host, enforcement producer, cookbook writer and celebrated foodie Padma Lakshmi breaks breadstuff with antithetic communities arsenic she explores the affluent and divers nutrient cultures of assorted migrant groups crossed America.

      This delicious four-part vacation variation highlights unsocial traditions done the lens of migrant cultures and communities, including Lunar New Year successful Los Angeles' Koreatown and a Cuban Christmas successful Miami.

      It's presently streaming connected Hulu.

      'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'

      (From left) Benedict Cumberbatch arsenic  Louis Wain and Claire Foy arsenic  Emily Richardson-Wain prima  successful  "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain."

      If you request idiosyncratic to play an eccentric character, who amended to get than Benedict Cumberbatch?

      He portrays British illustrator Louis Wain successful his adventures from the precocious 1800s done the 1930s. Wain seeks to unlock the "electrical" mysteries of the world, each portion producing his enactment built astir feline and kittens.

      It's interesting, to beryllium sure, and starts streaming connected Amazon Prime Friday.

      'The Harder They Fall'

      (From left) Regina King, Idris Elba and LaKeith Stanfield prima  successful  "The Harder They Fall."

      Idris Elba stars arsenic a antheral who is released from prison, lone to beryllium hunted by an force who rounds up a pack to nonstop revenge successful this Western.

      Oh, and did we notation that Elba's character, Rufus Buck, besides has his ain gang, including characters played by Regina King and LaKeith Stanfield?

      It's streaming connected Netflix.

      Two things to perceive to

      (From left) ABBA members Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus are shown, circa 1975.

      What's a fewer decades betwixt friends?

      It has been rather the travel for Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who became an iconic radical aft winning Eurovision successful 1974.

      They person present reunited for those of america who inactive sing the iconic past hits "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance connected Me" astatine the apical of our lungs.

      The caller medium drops Friday.

      Summer Walker performs onstage astatine  the BET Experience Staples Center Concert successful  LA, June 20, 2019.

      Being an R&B prima tin beryllium hard erstwhile you person societal anxiety, but it hasn't stopped Summer Walker from making unthinkable music.

      Based connected the way database for her latest, "Still Over It," that she posted this week connected societal media, Walker has a fewer things to accidental astir breached relationships.

      And we are present for it.

      "Still Over It" is retired Friday.

      One happening to speech about

      Kristen Stewart attends the LA premiere of "Spencer" astatine  the DGA Theater Complex connected  October 26.

      By now, you should astir apt already cognize I americium a large Anglophile.

      I mean, I person rewatched "The Crown" and "The Tudors" a ridiculous magnitude of times, adjacent with the afloat consciousness that the shows take, shall we say, "liberties" with the humanities accuracy.

      Check out this occurrence of my amusement Pop Life Pop Off! about our fascination with the royals and why, adjacent though determination is already immoderate Oscar buzz, Stewart volition ever beryllium "the miss from 'Twilight'" for me.

      Something to sip on

      Social media platforms are a large  spot  to find   a meme oregon  2  erstwhile   you request   a bully  laugh.

      Memes person been helping america get done the pandemic, according to Popular Science.

      The work reported connected a survey that concluded Covid-19 memes really helped radical consciousness little stressed.

        Now, I'm not endorsing said study, but I volition accidental my meme crippled picked up during the pandemic and has decidedly helped maine get a sorely needed chuckle present and there. I've heard from others that my memes person besides brightened their time present and determination (including Dr. Sylvia K., who had maine arsenic a impermanent connected her podcast recently).

        Laughter is truthful bully for the soul, and I implore you each to meme it up and stock the joy. And if you'd similar much tips to assistance negociate stress, motion up for CNN's caller six-part guide, Stress, But Less.

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