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John T. Edge


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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.

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The Potlikker Papers

3.82 avg rating — 2,026 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions
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The Truck Food Cookbook: 15...

3.60 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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House of Smoke: A Southerne...

4.15 avg rating — 128 ratings3 editions
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Southern Belly: The Ultimat...

3.96 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
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Fried Chicken: An American ...

3.83 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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Apple Pie

3.66 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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Hamburgers and Fries

3.58 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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A Gracious Plenty: Recipes ...

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Donuts: An American Passion

3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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The New Encyclopedia of Sou...

4.55 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions
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“Each generation thinks they're making a new way. What we mostly do is cover up what came before, following the same paths our people traced.”
John T. Edge, House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

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