John T. Edge

About this episode

John T. Edge discusses his career as a Southern food writer and his contributions to the culinary scene.

John T. Edge is a prolific, award-winning Southern food writer, TV host, Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. As a graduate student in 1998, Edge helped organize the Southern Foodways Alliance, an organization he led until an unforeseen and unnecessary controversy motivated him to retire in 2021. Edge is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun magazine and a former New York Times and Oxford American contributor . He also writes and hosts TrueSouth , an SEC Network TV series that profiles people and restaurants impacting the region's food scene. Currently, Edge is writing a memoir scheduled for publication in 2025. He's written numerous books, including The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South . Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, an acclaimed author and university instructor.

People in this episode

Guest: John T. Edge

Topics covered

• Southern food
• Food writing
• Culinary culture
• Television
• Memoir writing

Keywords

• Southern food
• food writer
• TrueSouth
• memoir
• Southern Foodways Alliance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern Foodways Alliance, Garden & Gun, New York Times, Oxford American, SEC Network, University of Mississippi, University of Georgia

Books & works: The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

Places: Oxford, Mississippi

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