Padma Lakshmi has always talked to her daughter about racism

Padma Lakshmi has an ongoing dialogue with her 10-year-old daughter Krishna about racism. “This is a subject that we have talked about all through her childhood,” the television personality recently told Page Six. “She’s a biracial child, she’s also someone who’s travelled extensively with me, not only domestically but internationally so she’s very aware of …

Padma Lakshmi has an ongoing dialogue with her 10-year-old daughter Krishna about racism.

“This is a subject that we have talked about all through her childhood,” the television personality recently told Page Six. “She’s a biracial child, she’s also someone who’s travelled extensively with me, not only domestically but internationally so she’s very aware of these issues of inequality, also because of my work with the ACLU, I’ve been able to take her to rallies and things like that.

“I try to expose her to as much in an age appropriate way, it’s not always a perfect science. I think it’s better to do it with children in small doses all through their lives rather than, ‘OK we have to hurry and bring them up to speed.’”

The “Top Chef” star, 49, also noted that she’s very excited for the end of the school year, calling homeschooling, “the bane of my existence.”

“I will be celebrating harder than my daughter when school finishes,” she said with a laugh. “It’s really hard, I majored in theater and American literature in college so I thought if entertainment hadn’t of worked out I’d be a teacher, I love kids but this period with Krishna and online schooling has relieved me of that misconception. Now I have a whole new respect for teachers’ emotional fortitude and patience.”

Aside from homeschooling, Lakshmi is busy promoting “Taste the Nation,” a new food series on Hulu. In it, she visits immigrant and Native American communities, asking them to share their stories and food.

“Obviously when I conceived the show in my head I had no idea it would be coming out in this particular moment in history,” she said. “I always felt that there should be more food programming about the contributions black people, indigenous people, people of color have made to the American food landscape.

“I wanted to give a microphone to people that don’t always get a microphone and I wanted to hear what they thought first hand.”

“One of the things I wanted to do with the show was introduce people to sub-cultures and communities that were living right alongside of them,” she continued. “And say you don’t have to feel afraid of these cultures, you don’t have to feel threatened by these immigrants, actually they are what make our culture so rich. You don’t have to be scared of these other people. To me that’s why America is a world-dominating force.”