Celebrating Netflix’s High On The Hog with Dr. Jessica B. Harris, Karis Jagger, and Fabienne Toback

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today marks the debut of a groundbreaking Netflix series based on Dr. Jessica B. Harris’s book, 'High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America.' Published 10 years ago, the book was optioned by Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback, two friends who could see Dr. Harris’s story about African American food culture, traditions, and ingredients living beyond the printed page. The result is the four-part 'High on the Hog,' which takes viewers on an emotional and lushly visual journey from Benin in West Africa to cities and counties across the United States. Dr. Harris, a historian, retired professor, and author of more than a dozen books joins us to talk about 'High on the Hog' and what it means to see her work both transformed and celebrated. In the second half of the show, we’re joined by the executive producers of the show, Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback of Hey Sistah.

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0:00.0	I always say this. People need to think Aretha. And by Aretha, I mean they need to R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
0:08.0	... Hey, Bombs and Girls are all bad at it. Oh, girl, chicken, drinking, baby, and we're all better.
0:25.1	Hey, Bomb Squad.
0:26.5	Welcome to a bonus episode of Radio Cherry Bomb.
0:29.3	I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Brooklyn, New York.
0:33.4	Today, we are celebrating a brilliant and beautiful new Netflix series,
0:37.7	High on the Hog, how African-American cuisine transformed America.
0:42.6	I'll be talking with three women who are instrumental to this project.
0:46.2	First, one of my favorite people in the food world, Dr. Jessica B. Harris, historian, prolific
0:52.5	author, and retired professor.
0:56.4	Dr. Harris is a lover of life, culture, prolific author, and retired professor. Dr. Harris is a lover of life,
1:02.1	culture, food, knowledge, you name it. The Netflix series is based on Dr. Harris' book of the same name. When High on the Hog came out a decade ago, she never imagined her book
1:07.7	would one day become a documentary series, broadcast to people in more
1:11.6	than get ready for this, 190 countries and in dozens of languages. After Dr. Harris, I'll be
1:19.2	talking to Karas Jagger and Fabienne Tobac, friends, moms, and the founders of Hey Sister. They
1:25.9	optioned Dr. Harris's book and helped take it from printed page
1:29.3	to a show called Profoundly Significant by the New York Times. Let's jump right into things.
1:35.7	Please enjoy my talk with Dr. Harris. I certainly did. It is always an honor to interview her.
1:42.8	Your beautiful book, High on the Hog, comes out in 2011. That book was a bit of a
1:47.4	departure from what you had done past. You had said you'd done primarily cookbooks. So how did this book come to be?
1:52.4	Well, I ended up with publishing house that was extraordinary and that believed I was able to write
1:58.0	nonfiction. And frankly, I am not someone who cooks by recipe.
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