{"id":1276,"date":"2026-07-26T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:11:13","slug":"john-t-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/john-t-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"John T. Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of <em>House of Smoke<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <em>TrueSouth<\/em> that airs on the SEC network and ESPN, and has previously published <em>The Potlicker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South<\/em>, as well as innumerable articles on Southern food and culture in <em>Garden and Gun, Oxford American<\/em>, and many other publications, including for many years a regular feature on NPR&#8217;s weekend <em>All Things Considered<\/em>. <em>House of Smok<\/em>e: <em>A Southerner Goes Searching for Home <\/em>is his first memoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johntedge.com\/\">Author Webiste<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Review on NPR<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/jedge_lg.jpg\" alt=\"White man with glasses dark blue shirt and blue jeans\" class=\"wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/jedge_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/jedge_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/houseofsmoke.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of old-fashioned white stove with a steaming black dutch oven on one eye, which is bright red, along with two other pans and a clock and spice rack on the wall behind and to the side. The title House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, John T. Edge are superimposed on the photo.\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/houseofsmoke.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/houseofsmoke-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Smoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45,48,49,36,50],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33","tag-cnf-2","tag-georgia-writer","tag-memoir","tag-mississippi-writer","tag-southern-foodways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}