John T. Edge

John T. Edge
Born (1962-12-22) December 22, 1962 (age 61)
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

John T. Edge (born December 22, 1962)[1] is a writer, commentator, and from 1999 to 2020 was 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. For 21 years (1999-2020) he contributed to the Oxford American and for three years he contributed to the New York Times. He writes a column for Garden & Gun and has written for, among others, Afar.[2] In 2017, he published The Potlikker Papers, a food history of the modern South.[3]

  1. ^ "John T. Edge". Georgia Center for the Book. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Southern Foodways Alliance: Staff". Southern Foodways Alliance. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  3. ^ Shah, Khushbu (15 Jul 2014). "John T. Edge Lands Deal to Publish New Book". Eater (Vox Media). Retrieved 13 November 2015.