'Counter Space' Host Sophia Roe Is Using Food To Educate

Let Sophia Roe feed you. The Brooklyn, New York-based chef is midway into the second season of her show “Counter Space.” The series uses food as a lens to explore today’s news and culture. “I feel like I’m just this really cool vessel, this story steward, that gets to really share about all sorts of things ― not just where our food comes from, but I think a lot of us already know that there are a lot of problems, so I think the show really covers solutions, which I think is really what we need to be talking about.” This season of “Counter Space” explores how hunters in Appalachia are addressing food accessibility, the huge impact Jamaica has on the world, how climate change is affecting Turkish honey producers, and why it seems like everyone has a tequila brand now. But there’s also a fair bit of pop culture stuff in there that I think is really cool and pretty sexy. On the show, Michael Twitty said: “On your quest to figure out who you are, be prepared to find out some things about yourself that you don’t like very much.” That is something that I consider all the time when I’m talking and thinking about food and thinking about the origin of this country and thinking about the origin of who has things and who doesn’t.