Netflix’s new “High on the Hog” isn’t just a food show or a history show or a travel show. It’s a joyful combination of all of those genres, shot through with a deep reverence for the people and places that were formative to creating African American food — which in turn became simply American food.
Based on the foundational book of the same name by food historian Jessica B. Harris, the four-part series travels to Benin, West Africa, as well as around the United States, from South Carolina to Texas, Philadelphia and New York. In doing so, the show reveals stories behind the food of the African American table and its relationship to Black history.
“High on the Hog” was hatched by food-loving filmmakers Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback, who served as executive producers and enlisted “Life, Animated” filmmaker Roger Ross Williams to direct. Food writer, chef and...
Based on the foundational book of the same name by food historian Jessica B. Harris, the four-part series travels to Benin, West Africa, as well as around the United States, from South Carolina to Texas, Philadelphia and New York. In doing so, the show reveals stories behind the food of the African American table and its relationship to Black history.
“High on the Hog” was hatched by food-loving filmmakers Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback, who served as executive producers and enlisted “Life, Animated” filmmaker Roger Ross Williams to direct. Food writer, chef and...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay and Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
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