Whetstone Magazine is a magazine and media company devoted to food origins and culture around the world, founded in 2016 by Stephen Satterfield. It publishes a seasonal print journal alongside an always-on online journal of long-form reporting from contributors across the globe, and both current issues and back issues are sold through the site's shop.
On the audio side, Whetstone produces a weekly podcast about where food and drink come from, plus a wider radio collective of shows. Satterfield hosts the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog, which grew out of Whetstone's editorial world and brought the same interest in food history to a much larger audience. Recent journal features have covered quinoa supply chains, township food-growing in South Africa and spotlights on regional American food, which gives a fair sense of the range: reporting that treats an ingredient as the end of a long human story rather than a shelf item.
This is a media company rather than a storefront, and it does not publish a mailing address, phone number or public inbox, so the website is the way in. Read the journal, listen to the podcast, or pick up a print issue today.
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