Stephen Satterfield

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Stephen Satterfield
Born (1985-04-18) April 18, 1985 (age 38)
Occupation Food Writer
Website stephensatterfield.com

Stephen A. Satterfield (born April 18, 1985) is an African-American food writer, producer, and media entrepreneur. He is the television host of 2021 Netflix docu-series High on the Hog How African American Cuisine Transformed America . [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Early life

Satterfield was born April 18, 1985, at Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Sam and Debbie Satterfield. [5] His family lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia and Decatur, Georgia during his childhood. [1] He graduated from Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Sandy Springs, Georgia in 2002. [1]

Career

After attending the University of Oregon for one year, Satterfield attended culinary school at the Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon. [6] He became a sommelier by age 21. [7]

In 2007, he founded the International Society of Africans in Wine, a non-profit foundation to support Black winemakers in Africa. He moved to San Francisco in 2010 and became manager of the farm-to-table restaurant Nopa. [6] In 2016, he cofounded Whetstone, a quarterly magazine exploring food history and culture. [1] [8] In 2018, he founded Whetstone Media. The company partnered with iHeartRadio to launch the food anthropology podcast Point of Origin as an audio adaptation of the magazine. [5]

Satterfield was the host of the Netflix docu-series High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America released in May 2021.

Philosophical views

Satterfield endeavors to consider food holistically as a means of connecting to the human experience and better understanding the world. [7] He works to bring diverse viewpoints to food writing. [8]

Honors and awards

Satterfield was selected as a 2016 Food Writing Fellow by The Culinary Trust and assigned to work on the website Civil Eats. [9]

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