John T. Edge
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| Born | December 22, 1962 Clinton, Georgia |
| Occupation | Writer, Commentator, and Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
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| Subject | American food, history of American food |
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| Notable awards | 2012 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation |
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John T. Edge (born December 22, 1962) 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. In 2017, he published The Potlikker Papers, a food history of the modern South.