John T. Edge

John T. Edge (born December 22, 1962) is a writer, commentator, and, since its founding in 1999, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He has written several books on Southern food. He contributes to the Oxford American and the New York Times, and has written for Garden & Gun and Afar. In 2017, he published The Potlikker Papers, a personal history of Southern food.

John T. Edge
Born (1962-12-22) December 22, 1962
OccupationWriter, Commentator, and Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Education
  • Masters Degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi
  • MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from Goucher College
SubjectAmerican food, history of American food
Notable works
  • Fried Chicken: An American Story
  • Apple Pie: An American Story
  • Southern Belly
  • The Truck Food Cookbook
Notable awards2012 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation
Website
www.johntedge.com
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