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obert Tate Is a documentary film and tv director whose work focuses on the creative process, capturing stories of people rising to the occasion of their own lives.
He's won the Emmy, International Documentary Association (IDA), Cine Golden Eagle, New York Festival, Taste, Telly, and James Beard awards for his varied projects on architecture, health, science, food, fashion, and culture.
Highlights include the PBS series, Diary of a Foodie, Lidia Celebrates America, Moveable Feast, the Sundance Channel’s Architecture School, and the feature docs, Eleven Minutes (Regent Releasing), The Magic Pill (Netflix), and Happy Clothes: a Film about Patricia Field (Greenwich).
ROB TATE
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Chef Lidia Bastianich explores the many cultures that make up the American Melting Pot.
Complete First Season
COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
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PROMO SEASON TWO
Lidia brings Anna Deavere Smith and a production team to Galveston, TX to hear the real story behind JUNETEENTH, the annual celebration of the slaves of Texas finally learning of their freedom set forth by Lincoln's Emmancipation Proclamation ... two years after the fact.
A Kuwaiti woman becomes an American citizen, and for the first time in her life registers to vote. A man purchases a plantation on which his ancestors once were slaves. Jacques Pepin throws his yearly Bastille Day Fete. And Lidia helps prepare a Filipino dinner where Spam, Vienna Sausage, and Banana Ketchup rise to the level of Haute Cuisine.
In the stark, stunning 4-Corners region of the American South-west, Lidia attends a Navajo house warming ceremony. The new home is designed and built off-the-grid, with solar panels, water catchment, and found materials by students at the award-winning graduate architectural program, Design/ Build Bluff.
