>> Thank you for the recommendation. I watched the first episode last night. I really appreciate that the producers put the food in the context of the place, the culture, and its history. That's incredibly powerful. <<

Yeah, I wish more food shows were like that.

I've found a few others with strong cultural imprints -- there was a taco series so sensual that I'd call it R-rated food pr0n.

>> Did it strike you that Stephen Satterfield bears a striking resemblance to Chad Boseman? He even moves the same way. It's strikingly different from American patterns of movement, too.<<

Yep. Other things that caught my attention:

* I admire a black man secure enough to cry on camera.

* He talked openly about a little bit of ancestor magic that's been around for centuries, since some abolitionist groups funded repatriation trips for former slaves -- that part about bringing the ancestors home. People do it, but they almost never talk about it. I've seen a few references to it in slave narratives and then again from the Civil Rights Movement when a few activists when over there. I think this was the first time I've seen any mention of it on TV.