Netflix’s ‘High on the Hog’ showcases Black people’s vital contributions to American food

The topic — and the creator of its source material — made hosting a daunting task. “I know that this is a historic show, and I needed to be able to step outside of my own nerves and insecurity and anxiety, and really step into the presence of the host, the facilitator of this historic text,” Satterfield said in a phone interview. “It wasn’t just the enormity of the production itself, a first for the world of media. I was being called to embody the work of someone who is like an intellectual hero, a giant in my life. So I really got to a point where, in many ways, I was just performing for the approval of an audience of one.”