First Things First is a series chronicling the morning beverage routines of some of our favorite people.
Stephen Satterfield may have just come onto your radar: He’s the host of Netflix’s docu-series High on the Hog, which unearths the roots of America’s foodways in Africa, and which debuted last month. But Satterfield has been using food as means of organizing and educating for over a decade, first as a sommelier who put a speakerphone to the work of Black winemakers in South Africa and then as the founder of Whetstone, a magazine (and podcast, and media company) dedicated to sharing the origin stories of our culinary worlds. Another thing that hasn’t changed, no matter what continent on which he wakes? Satterfield’s morning routine. Find it below, in his own words.