Today’s episode is with food writer, producer, and media entrepreneur Stephen Satterfield. Stephen is the host of Netflix’s critically acclaimed docuseries “High on the Hog” and the founder of Whetstone, a magazine and media company dedicated to food origins and culture from around the world. In this episode, he shares the importance of food origins as a space for reclamation and what it means to examine who and what’s being left out of the story. 
We explore Stephen’s own origin story–growing up in Atlanta in the ’80s–along with topics that range from his start as a young sommelier, the implications of citizens being divorced from food culture, and ultimately how being crushed by a series of life events propelled his career forward; leading him from self-doubt to conviction. 
Things to read
https://maap.columbia.edu/place/1.html (Oysters originated because of a Black man)
http://jameshemingssociety.org/james-hemings/ (James Hemings invented baked Mac and Cheese)
https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/store/p/whetstone-magazine-volume-08-digital (Whetstone Magazine, Summer 2021)
What to check out
https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/magazine (Whetstone Media)
https://www.riseandrootfarm.com/karen-washington (Kara Washington )and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/15/food-apartheid-food-deserts-racism-inequality-america-karen-washington-interview (food apartheid)
Environmental factors that affect a crop - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir (Terroir)
Stephen Satterfield became a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommelier (Sommelier) before his 21st birthday


What to listen to
Episode mentioned by Dario - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-morality-of-meat/id1475800695?i=1000499228439 (The Morality of Meat)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/point-of-origin/id1475800695 (Point of Origin) Podcast
https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/radio (Whetstone Radio Collective)
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lecA86POu0jRaFIubASoT (Outkast - Mainstream (1996))


Who to follow
Stephen Satterfield on https://www.instagram.com/isawstephen/?hl=en (IG)




This conversation was recorded on March 4th, 2022


Host https://www.instagram.com/dario.studio/ (Dario Calmese) 
Producer https://www.instagram.com/carmendharris/ (Carmen D. Harris)  
Production Assistant: https://www.instagram.com/holly_woodco/ (Coniqua Johnson )
Visual Art Direction and Designs: 
http://riverwildmen.com/ (River Wildmen), https://www.instagram.com/afrovisualism/ (AfroVisualism)
Original Music composed by http://www.dariocalmese.com/ (Dario Calmese) 
Visit us at https://www.blackimagination.com/oral-history (blackimagination.com )