John T. Edge
Author · 10 books
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 is also host of the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and ESPN. Edge is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and a columnist for the Oxford American. For three years he wrote the monthly “United Taste” 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 three James Beard Foundation awards. In 2012, he won Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.
Series
Books
Southern Belly
The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South
2002
The Truck Food Cookbook
150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels
2012
Fried Chicken
An American Story
2004
A Gracious Plenty
1999
Apple Pie
2004
The Larder
Food Studies Methods from the American South
2013
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 7
Foodways
2007
Donuts
An American Passion
2006
Hamburgers and Fries
2005
The Potlikker Papers
A Food History of the Modern South
2017
