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John T. Edge

John T. Edge has served as director since the 1999 founding of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

Winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation, he is author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South (Penguin Press), named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and a host of others. Now in paperback, Nashville selected the book as a citywide read for 2018. Edge is also the host of the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and on ESPN.
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American Cooking, Southern style, Cooking, american, southern style, Food habits, Guidebooks, Social life and customs, American Cookery, Food, Southern States, Southern states, social life and customs, Central Southern states, Cooking, american, Food & Drink / Cookery, Food trucks, History, Louisiana, Nonfiction, Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States, Sociology, Street food, Travel, Travel & holiday guides, Travel - United States, United States - South - South Atlantic (General), American Civil War

Places

Southern States, United States, Abita Springs, Avery Island, Barataria, Baton Rouge, Bywater, CBD, City Park, Covington, Faubourg Marigny, French Quarter, Garden District, Houma, Louisiana, Mandeville, Mid-City, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.), New Orleans Fairgrounds, Thibodaux, Treme District, Uptown, Warehouse District

People

Abraham Lincoln, Adrien du Pauger, Alonso Alvarez, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Butler, Buddy Bolden, David G. Farragut, Ernest Morial, Hernando de Soto, James Madison, Jean Lafitte, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Judah Touro, King Charles III, King Louis XIV, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Marc Morial, Napoleon Bonaparte, Pierre Lafitte, Pierre Le Moyne, Rene Robert Cavalier la Salle, Robert Livingston, Samuel Jarvis Peters, Thomas Jefferson

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21st century

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February 21, 2019 Edited by Lisa Edited without comment.
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February 21, 2019 Edited by Lisa Added new photo
September 5, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import