Let Sophia Roe feed you. With her recipes. With her words. With her passion to make the world just a little bit better.
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. Roe, who hosts and produces the show, takes viewers on a journey through different culinary experiences by telling the stories of the people who make them directly. Season Two premiered on Tastemade and Vice on Jan. 17.
An advocate for sustainability and food accessibility, the James Beard Foundation Award winner has built an intentional space with her show — and her social media presence — to champion education about food systems and inequality.
With Season One of “Counter Space,” Roe, who is of Black American and Japanese descent, became the first Black woman nominated in the culinary category for a Daytime Emmy.
“It’s a show not about me, and I love that,” Roe told HuffPost during a recent Zoom call. “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.
For “I Run This,” Roe discussed her culinary journey from childhood, her work to fight food injustice, and her hopes for the future of the food industry.
Congratulations on Season Two of “Counter Space.” Can you talk about how the show came to be, and how it evolved this season?
Season One, it was more newsy because it had to be, because we were in the middle of a pandemic….
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