About John T.
John T. Edge writes about the American South. The Penguin Press published his latest book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, 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. He hosts the television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network and ESPN. Edge is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun. For twenty-two years, he served as a columnist for the Oxford American. For three years he wrote the “United Tastes” column for the New York Times. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eleven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He has won four James Beard Foundation Awards, including two M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Awards.
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TrueSouth tells honest stories about the past, present, and future of the South. In each city, we focus on two restaurants that talk to each other in interesting ways.
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