Stephen Satterfield Instagram – In the least surprising development of High on the Hog, you all fell in love with my dear friend @gabrielle_eitienne and her Uncle Andrew. (Today is Uncle Andrews birthday too y’all!)
Gabrielle is an incredible collector and chronicler of her family’s past and present in North Carolina. Her family becomes a proxy for ours, and her work frames food and story as central vessels to ancestral memory and future liberation. And clearly, she is a major culinary talent.
In 2019, I interviewed Gabrielle for @whetstonemagazine podcast called Point of Origin. Gabrielle appeared in the second of a two-part series, entitled Farming While Black after the name of @leahpenniman essential text from the same year. In the interview, Gabrielle talks about her journey and her muses, like Cornelia Bailey, Vertamae Grosvenor and of course, Dr. J.
I also chat with Dr. Monica White, author of the brilliant #FreedomFarmers. We know well that land has a story to tell and we tell ourselves stories about our relationship to the land. Often those stories have perpetuated a racialized ruling class for whom ownership was inevitable and generations of dispossessed Black and brown families.
Dr. White does an amazing job of connecting food to power, politics, sovereignty and justice, and reframes resistance from protesting and picketing to growing and planting.
Perhaps you’ll consider following/subscribing to @whetstonemagazine for more stories like this from over 80 countries. And most definitely support Gabrielle’s incredible community ag project @tallgrassfoodbox.
Enjoy BTS photos of our shoot from Apex, NC and most crucially a closeup of the already famous beet cornbread, collard greens.
Lastly, not enough can be said for the breathtaking cinematic quality of the series for which we are all indebted to Jerry Henry (@cactus.eyelash), the mesmerizing DP pictured in the first frame. Peace y’all. 🖤 | Posted on 02/Jun/2021 05:18:25
