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 deeper, learning about the nomadic roots of the Fulani people and the cultural significance of the mat, we travel to Palestine to taste the milky distillate, arak. And then to La Palma in the Canary Islands to drink local wine froma woman winemaker, while considering the industry’s male dominance. We’re questioning the morality of eating meat, the politics of language and why we don’t say food dessert, but rather, food apartheid.This season we’re bringing you into the policies thatinfluence and shape our food system. And along the way drinking coffee with you while discussing its African origins. From the makers of Whetstone media, it's PoO S3. on September 23! I’m inviting you to travel with me, your host Stephen Satterfield, for another tour of the world of food worldwide.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, It's me we Stone, co founder and Point
of Origin host Stephen Saderfield. It's been a few months
since our last podcast, and the world we left behind
is so so much different than the one we are
now in. But then again, with more sitting and reading
and contemplation, we see plainly the ways in which our

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most distressed communities have always been most closely bound to
struggles for justice, land, and dignity. There is much to
be garnered in understanding the past. We believe this so
fiercely that we have dedicated our work to this precise framework,
centering concepts like origin, anthropology, and indigenousity. We considered our

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role in this moment of social uprisings and the ways
in which it related to our work. We thought of
maybe doing an entire season through the lens of COVID
nineteen or the immense impact of the Black Lives Matter mobilization.
But as we started to prepare for this season, what
became clear is that the thing we do best is

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also the thing that is most helpful in this moment,
and that thing is absorbing and discussing food culture from
the global and historical. We cannot comment intelligently on food
or social uprisings or pandemics or anything in between without

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a perspective that is rooted in the international, intergenerational and intersectional.
So our plan for this season is the same as
the first two, which is to explore the world of
food worldwide, and in doing that, with the context we
provide and the people we learn from, help us understand

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the parts of us that are cyclical and collective and
how we can learn from previous struggles to meet this
moment with unprecedented education and empathy. And with that, I'd
like to welcome you to Point of Origin Season three,
where we will take you to Palestine to learn about

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the oldest spirit in the world, Iraq, and then to
West Africa to learn about Fulani foodways. We head to
Mexico to learn about a fight for biodiverse avocados, and
wine maker Victoria Torres embraces the challenges and the ter
war of Spain's Canary Islands. That is just a small

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preview of what's in store, So get ready for season
three by beinging the first two seasons of Point of Origin. Now,
you can listen to Point of Origin the I Heart
Radio app, at Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
podcast in the meantime. You can find us on I
G at wet Stone Magazine or online at wet Stone

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magazine dot com. That's double u h E T S
t O n E magazine dot com. M