Stephen Satterfield is the host of Netflix's High on the Hog. He has searched out and reported food stories all over the world. In Georgia, he met a winemaker who took him to drink wine from an old grapevine. A Jengalov Hats are griddled flatbread filled with minced greens and herbs.
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