The Melting Pot
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The Melting Pot
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eng
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The Melting Pot
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900276472
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Originally produced by PBS in 2014
Runtime
60
Summary
Three celebrity chefs who cook the food of their ancestors discover family members who have shaped their lives {u2014} and America{u2019}s cuisine. Tom Colicchio of 2Top Chef3 learns the hardships his family endured (famine, bandits) living in a tiny town in Northern Italy and celebrates the courage of his original immigrant ancestor, a man who crossed the Atlantic many times to bring the Colicchios to the United States; Ming Tsai, the child of immigrants who fled Mao{u2019}s Cultural Revolution, was raised to believe that his that his family{u2019}s Chinese past was obliterated by the Communists {u2014} instead, he finds that his roots can be traced back more than 2,000 years, yielding a large family tree; and Aaron Sanchez discovers that his family{u2019}s treasured Mexican roots include people who were Spaniards, Africans and Native Americans
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