In 2020, Hulu's Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi and Eater’s Guide to the World helped fill the Anthony Bourdain void

The A.V. Club

"Anthony Bourdain’s sudden, shocking death in the summer of 2018 knocked the food world off of its feet, leaving a void that seemed like it could never be filled," says Katie Rife. "Earlier that year, Netflix had introduced two travel/food hybrids in the form of Ugly Delicious and Somebody Feed Phil. And those shows continued, along with new ones like Salt Fat Acid Heat and The Chef Show, in 2019. But things just weren’t the same. Not until 2020, when two new travel series debuted that made tentative steps toward filling that unfillable void—and not on Netflix, either. Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi debuted first, dropping the entirety of its 10-episode first season on Hulu on June 18. Lakshmi, like Bourdain, is a name that needs no introduction for anyone with even a passing interest in the subject matter...The hard-partying, irreverent side of Bourdain’s onscreen personality is better reflected in Hulu’s Eater’s Guide To The World, which comes without a host—when Eater staffers come along for culinary adventures, they appear in the background and don’t address the camera directly—but with plenty of irreverent commentary (and profanity) from narrator Maya Rudolph."