748: Dr. Jessica B. Harris

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re spending an hour with Culinary Historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris. We talk about her start in food writing, how she started making connections between what she ate in Africa and what she ate in America, learn about one of her greatest influences, her mother who she calls her “culinary secret weapon”, and hear the many different ways she studied food, from reading Columbus’ journal to her experiences as a travel editor. She is the author of twelve books including, Iron Pots and Wooden Spoon: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking, her memoir, My Soul Looks Back, and High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 7, 2022 (originally aired)
January 27, 2023 (rebroadcast)
May 17, 2024 (rebroadcast)

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1:23.8	Hey, it's Francis, and this week we're bringing back a full hour interview I did last year with a dear friend and mentor, the one and only Dr. Jessica Harris. She is an absolute force of nature. Check it out.
1:41.5	I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:48.7	Our guest today is the inimitable Dr. Jessica B. Harris, the great scholar of how African food changed the world's food.
1:58.1	She's the author of High on the Hog, which was made into a smash-hit Netflix
2:02.0	docu-series. But I have to tell you, Dr. Harris is someone I often address as Auntie Jessica.
2:08.5	She's a friend I've known for nearly 20 years, and the first time I interviewed her on this show,
2:14.1	I told the story of how we met, and it's pretty long, so without going into all the
2:18.0	details, it was pretty much like this. We met at a dinner. I was a nobody in the food world,
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