Finding Your Roots

The Melting Pot

Three celebrity chefs who cook the food of their ancestors discover family members who have shaped their lives — and America’s cuisine. Tom Colicchio of “Top Chef” learns of the hardships his family endured, Ming Tsai, finds that his roots can be traced back more than 2,000 years, yielding a large family tree and Aaron Sanchez relearns his family’s treasured and diverse Mexican roots.

The Melting Pot Promo

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Celebrity chefs Tom Colicchio, Aaron Sanchez and Ming Tsai discover family members who have shaped their lives -- and America’s cuisine.

Previews + Extras

  • Tom Colicchio's Ideal Family Dinner: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tom Colicchio's Ideal Family Dinner

    S2 E5 - 1m 26s

    An award-winning chef, restaurateur and Top Chef host Tom Colicchio picks Francescantonio Colicchio from his family tree to cook dinner for, and discusses what he would like to cook for him.

  • Ming Tsai's Ancestral Homeland: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ming Tsai's Ancestral Homeland

    S2 E5 - 2m 48s

    When the award-winning chef Ming Tsai's paternal grandparents Stephen Tsai and Lily Li fled the Chinese Communist Revolution, Stephen took a book with him that traces the family genealogy back to the year 891 A.D. Professor Gates' team visited China to try to confirm this oral history of the Tsai family genealogy.

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