Language English Nationality American Movies Pride And Joy | Name John Edge Children Jess Edge Role Writer | |
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Occupation Writer, Commentator, and Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance Subject American food, history of American food Notable works Fried Chicken: An American Story
Apple Pie: An American Story
Southern Belly
The Truck Food Cookbook. Notable awards 2012 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation Awards James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award Nominations James Beard Award for American Cooking Books Southern Belly, The Truck Food Cookboo, A Gracious Plenty: Recipes, Fried Chicken, Hamburgers and Fries Profiles | ||
Education University of Mississippi | ||
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John T. Edge (22 Dec, 1962 –) is a writer, commentator, and, since its founding in 1999, 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. He contributes to the Oxford American and the New York Times, and has written for Garden & Gun and Afar. He is currently writing The Potlikker Papers, a personal history of Southern food.
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- John t edge let us now praise famous cooks rethinking the white trash cookbook
- John t edge big bad breakfasat food ography
- Education
- Southern Foodways Alliance
- Media
- Personal life
- Publications
- References
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Education
Edge holds a master's degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from Goucher College.
Southern Foodways Alliance
In 1999, Edge co-founded and became the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Every October, the Southern Foodways Alliance sponsors a symposium in Oxford, Mississippi, on American southern cuisine. Edge is one the primary organizers and the master of ceremonies for the many events, which attract several hundred attendees. The SFA also engages in oral history work, makes films, and stages other events.
Media
Edge has authored numerous books detailing how America eats, including, Fried Chicken: An American Story, Apple Pie: An American Story, Southern Belly, and The Truck Food Cookbook. Edge has been a regular contributor for the weekend edition of NPR's All Things Considered and has appeared on various television shows including CBS Sunday Morning and Iron Chef.
In 2012, he won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation. His work has also been featured in 10 editions of the Best Food Writing Anthology.
Personal life
Edge was born in the rural town of Clinton, in Jones County, Georgia. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, a painter, writer, and teacher. They have one son, Jess.