Hungry for Answers

TV-PG

2022

Culinary Travel

Food

Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

Season 1, Episode 1

: Caroline Randall Williams travels to Nashville to learn the rich history of her hometown's culinary calling card, hot chicken. The dish's Black originators struggle to grow their business while new, white-owned hot chicken empires dominate the market.

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Hungry for Answers

About the Series

Hungry for Answers

Caroline Randall Williams, an award-winning writer, cookbook author and restaurateur, travels the United States uncovering the fascinating, essential and often untold Black stories behind American food.

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SEASON EPISODES FROM EXISTING SERIES ENDPOINT

Episodes

Season 1

Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

1. Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

Caroline Randall Williams travels to Nashville to learn the rich history of her hometown's culinary calling card, hot chicken.

Do You Know Sugar's Dirty Little Secret?

2. Do You Know Sugar's Dirty Little Secret?

Caroline Randall Williams traces the complicated history of sugar and meets some community-minded beekeepers in Philadelphia.

Is Jack Daniel's Black?

3. Is Jack Daniel's Black?

Caroline Randall Williams learns about Nathan "Nearest" Green, a Black distiller behind Jack Daniel's whiskey, and a new whiskey empire honoring him.

Where Are All the Black Farmers?

4. Where Are All the Black Farmers?

Caroline Randall Williams explores the marginalization of Black farmers in America and its impact on food in Black communities.

SEASON EPISODES FROM NEW GETSEASON ENDPOINT

Episodes

Season 1

Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

1. Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

Caroline Randall Williams travels to Nashville to learn the rich history of her hometown's culinary calling card, hot chicken.

Do You Know Sugar's Dirty Little Secret?

2. Do You Know Sugar's Dirty Little Secret?

Caroline Randall Williams traces the complicated history of sugar and meets some community-minded beekeepers in Philadelphia.

Is Jack Daniel's Black?

3. Is Jack Daniel's Black?

Caroline Randall Williams learns about Nathan "Nearest" Green, a Black distiller behind Jack Daniel's whiskey, and a new whiskey empire honoring him.

Where Are All the Black Farmers?

4. Where Are All the Black Farmers?

Caroline Randall Williams explores the marginalization of Black farmers in America and its impact on food in Black communities.

Season 1, Episode 1 - Who Gets to Cook Black Food?

Starring: 

Caroline Randall Williams, Nick Bishop, Andre Prince Jeffries, Austin Smith

Release Year: 

2022

Rating Information: 

TV-PG

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