author of House of Smoke
October 24, 11am
John T. Edge founded the Southern Foodways Symposium at the University of Mississippi and is a past director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. He hosts the television show TrueSouth that airs on the SEC network and ESPN and has previously published The Potlicker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, as well as innumerable articles on Southern food and culture in Garden and Gun, Oxford American, and many other publications, including for many years a regular feature on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered. House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home is his debut memoir.
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