FollowingFaye: June 2021

Friday, June 18, 2021

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"High on the Hog"

An excerpt from Vice -

'High on the Hog' Proves Why Food Travel Shows Need New Gatekeepers

“The reason why [the show] is so resonant for Black people is because that’s really who it’s for. It’s for us.”

By Kristin Corry

“Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you where you are from,” famed Yoruba artist Romuald Hazoumè told Stephen Satterfield, host of Netflix’s inspiring new travel show High on the Hog. The phrase could double as the thesis of food historian Dr. Jessica Harris’s book of the same name, which resonated so much with production duo Fabienne Toback and Karis Jagger that they chose to adapt it for their first full-length documentary.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93y3vd/netflix-high-on-the-hog-food-travel-show-interview

Honoring Her Parents

From Today -

Graduating senior honors farm-worker parents with special photos

Jennifer Rocha began working in the fields with her parents when she was in high school.

By Kait Hanson and Mohammed Syed

One California woman is going viral for the emotional graduation photos she took to honor her parents.

21-year-old Jennifer Rocha, from Coachella, California, has been working in the fields with her parents, both immigrants from Michoacán, Mexico, since she was in high school.

"My dad decided to take me to work in the field when I was in junior year of high school," Rocha told TODAY Parents, adding that during that time she was also running on the cross-country team at school. "My dad would pick me up from cross-country practice at around 2, 3 p.m. and then come home, eat something, (and) change. And then we would go and plant strawberries overnight."

https://www.today.com/parents/ucsd-student-honors-farm-worker-parents-photos-field-t222050