“It’s beautiful,” says Stephen Satterfield, the host of the limited series “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” debuting today on Netflix. “High on the Hog” is a revolutionary moment for American food and travel television programming. “High on the Hog” takes its name from the 2011 book by scholar and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris. For Satterfield, his participation in “High on the Hog” is another facet of his mission to reframe ownership of history and recast the chroniclers. “The themes are so strong in the book: survival, self-reliance, entrepreneurship, connectivity,” Jagger and Toback conveyed through a joint email.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 26, 2021 13:02 UTC