John T. Edge, author portrait
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John T. Edge

John T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.
House of Smoke
The Potlikker Papers

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Walter Anderson Museum of Art
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Ticonderoga Club
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Atlanta, GA 30307
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Books

House of Smoke
The Potlikker Papers

Events

Wed Oct 29 | 06:00 PM
Walter Anderson Museum of Art
510 Washington Ave
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Google Map

Thu Oct 30 | 07:00 PM
Ticonderoga Club
99 Krog St NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Google Map

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