Though it was announced in April that Taste the Nation would not be returning for another season, its legacy will live on in the creator’s third and newest cookbook, Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond, which hits shelves on Nov. 4. Amid a second Trump Administration that has ordered sweeping mass deportations and ICE raids in major American cities, she has called it a “love letter” to immigrants.“I hope that the book will be a positive way to counteract all the hate,” Lakshmi, an artist ambassador for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said in a recent phone interview. By expanding our palates, she hopes that “we’ll be more amenable to getting to know our neighbors,” and more likely to bridge the ever-growing “divide between Americans of all types.”