Point of Origin is about the world of food, worldwide. Each week we travel to different countries exploring culture through food, examining its past and present, and what it teaches us about who we are and how we came to be. Join Whetstone Magazine co-founder host Stephen Satterfield as he connects with those most immersed in defining and preserving global foodways. Along the way we’re drinking natural wine in Australia, sipping tea — Taiwanese Oolong and Sri Lankan Ceylon — and eating frejon, a Nigerian staple with Brazilian origins. The power of food is that it has a story to tell. Point of Origin is a podcast that enthusiastically uplifts the voices of women and people of color. We believe that this diversity isn’t just noteworthy but part of what makes our work essential and distinguished. When the gatekeepers are diverse, so too are the stories, its tellers and their experiences.
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Introducing At the Table | The Food Allergy Podcast
This is At the Table, the Food Allergy Podcast—a show about food, connection, and living with food allergies. Each episode, we pull up a chair to a different table—from d
Sep 9 1 min
Introducing the Whetstone Radio Collective
Hello Point of Origin fans, your host Stephen Satterfield here! I want to tell you about Whetstone Radio Collective, a brand new podcast venture from Whetstone Media now
Feb 11 2022 1 min
Food Apartheid: (And Why We Don't Call it a Food Desert)
Point of Origin friends this is our last episode of the season and a very special one to capstone the season. Today we’re talking about justice in food systems, its absen
Nov 25 2020 44 min
The Morality of Meat
What does it mean to eat meat in 2020? What it means to consuming it, to abstain from it and how, as always on matters of so called morality are murky, and impossible to
Nov 18 2020 43 min
Black Coffee
So often in “specialty” food and coffee, those are being marketed to and those on the ground who is a commentary on who gets to indulge and who must labor. Reclaiming sto
Nov 11 2020 38 min
Beyond the Wheat
In many ways, no other food represents the center of culinary and communal life more than bread. It is likely the most consumed food in the world, but as it has been a st
Nov 4 2020 41 min
What Do We Mean When We Say Food Anthropology?
What do we mean when we say anthropology? And specifically food anthropology? We're talking about a word we use often and a word embedded in Whetstone lexicon and ideolog
Oct 28 2020 31 min
Spoiled Milk
You're familiar with those "Got Milk" commercials. You've seen the billboards a hundred times. Those milk mustaches seemed innocuous enough. What you may not have conside
Oct 21 2020 28 min
Green Gold: Avocado Farming in Mexico
The Hass avocado boom has driven significant change, both positive and negative, in the communities of those growing and harvesting the fruit. While the revenue created b
Oct 14 2020 33 min
Wine of Volcano and Sea
Whetstone contributor Mónica R. Goya takes us to La Palma, part of the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, to meet winemaker Victoria Torres Pecis. Pecis owns and
Oct 7 2020 27 min
Fulani Foodways with Chef Binta
Host Stephen Satterfield connects with Chef Binta, an ambassador for the ancient grain fonio and self described modern nomadic chef. Her Fulani roots, classical training
Sep 30 2020 32 min
Reviving Arak in Palestine
Most people have heard of ouzo from Greece, pastis from France or Italian sambuca but few know that they're all derived from the mother spirit, arak - the oldest spirit i
Sep 23 2020 26 min
Season 3 arrives September 23
Food is, and always has been, political. If that wasn’t clear before, the events of 2020 have revealed this truth in spectacular fashion. So this season, we’re diving dee
Sep 18 2020 3 min
Indigenous Foodways: The Decolonized Diet
Recent media attention surrounding native indigenous foodways has brought to light what a decolonized diet means. This is in part thanks to individuals like Sean Sherman,
Apr 29 2020 50 min
A New, New Nordic?
Over last 20 years, there is perhaps no name more important in the world of contemporary dining culture than Chef René Redzepi and his restaurant, Noma. After two decades
Apr 22 2020 45 min
Culinary Commodities
Did you know that the coconut is one of the only seafaring, self-propagating crops? Or that most of the world’s olive oils are produced in Spain, but end up blended, impo
Apr 16 2020 45 min
Third Culture
Diasporic foodways looks at the ways identity and food evolve in new home countries. Join Whetstone Magazine’s Point of Origin podcast as we speak with Asleigh Shanti, Aa
Apr 8 2020 47 min
One-on-One with Reem Assil
Just days before her second restaurant was set to open, we spoke to Bay Area-based chef and restaurateur Reem Assil. We discussed her feelings on the precipice of opening
Apr 1 2020 48 min
Natural Wine: Part 2
In part 2 of our series on natural wine we delve deeper into the what makes the term natural wine controversial, why the qualifier alludes us and if natural wine is trend
Mar 25 2020 37 min
Natural Wine: It’s Alive!
Natural wine is farmed organically biodynamically, using permaculture, and made without adding or removing anything in the cellar. No additives or processing aids are use
Mar 18 2020 23 min
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A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
This podcast is a must-listen for anyone. We must rethink how we approach food, the way we eat it, prepare it, and grow it, and Point of Origin provides an insightful and thoughtful lens into a better food system.
xtina.d.o · Dec 2021
Great podcast with so many great conversations, education, and information. Thought provoking and original content about the point of origin of our food systems. Only critic would be some of the background music overwhelms the dialogue, especially on the episode “farming while black” while discussing with souls fire farms about reparations.
alan@sagra · Aug 2021
The content of this podcast is so rich and informative, every episode makes me think differently about a food I’ve been consuming for years or my whole life. I think the audio editing could be cleaner, in the episodes I’ve heard the volume of the talking is super low and the ads are really loud, but the content alone makes this a more than worthwhile podcast.
Nigel D. · Jul 2021
I just listened to the episode about the USDA, milk, lobbyists and white supremacy. I grew up on a dairy farm and I’ve gone on to work in food. It is so important to understand how we are being manipulated by our government and how we even pay for it. I am looking forward to listening to more Whetstone podcasts. Thank you.
Mallicent · Nov 2020
before I go on, I just want to be very clear that I love this podcast and will continue to listen and recommend. That said, in the latest episode, when the topic of Cuba comes up there a few facts that need to be checked. First of all Cuba is not a socialist country, it is a communist country. Its health care system is adequate, but its food rationing system is nothing to mirror. People are starving and will often sell their rations to survive. It’s also very important to draw a distinction between socialism and communism, as there are several key differences. Much of the continuing systemic racism in Cuba is tied to the fact that it Communist, and thus supports and expands preexisting systems of oppression. We see the same oppressive models in other communist countries like China, where minority communities such as Uyghers are thrown into concentration camps, stripped of their cultures, forced to assimilate. When we discuss these topics, the facts are important, lest anyone walk away with a romanticized and inaccurate impression of other systems.
unehistoiredeplage · May 2021
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