The Passion for Food

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"I think watching food on television as like a matter of culture and art and exploration was really compelling for me," she says. "When I left high school in Atlanta, I decided to just pick a point on a map that was very far away from where I was" She fell in love with wine at 19; two years later, she had become a salamuie. 'The first class I ever took was an introduction to wine studies class'

Stephen Satterfield, the host of Netflix docu-series “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” thinks the bananas in the U.S. are gross. Sure, they’re convenient to produce and ship commercially, but they’re fibrous, bland and maybe worst of all inescapable! They’re also just one example of how what we eat is shaped by culture, politics, and history. In this episode, Stephen explains why he uses gastronomy as a way to understand the world and shares how we can use food to empower people who grow and consume what we eat. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts