John T. Edge

About

John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers, has served as an Oxford American columnist since 1998. He directs the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA program in narrative nonfiction at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, and hosts the television show TrueSouth on SEC/ESPN. Season three debuts this fall.

Articles

Issue 21/22, Summer 1998

Stand by Your Pan

Today, the South is a virtual boneyard of bungled attempts to convert the cachet of country music stardom into food-industry cash.

By John T. Edge

Issue 34, July / August 2000

Mama Tried

“She called us her boys, and we called her Mama. I’ll love her till the day I die.”

By John T. Edge

In Through The Back Door

By John T. Edge

Rant with Collards

By John T. Edge

I Had a Farm in Atlanta

By John T. Edge

Civil Roots

By John T. Edge

Debts of Pleasure

By John T. Edge

The State of the Broth

By John T. Edge

Deep South Vadouvan

By John T. Edge

My Civil War

By John T. Edge

Going Deeper With Red Dog

By John T. Edge

How to Read a Menu

By John T. Edge

Road Tripping with Nathalie Dupree

By John T. Edge

The Harris Hegemony

By John T. Edge

On Crawfish Boats and Taco Baskets

By John T. Edge

An Active Authenticity

By John T. Edge

Issue 101, Summer 2018

Dixie Vodka

By John T. Edge

Issue 102, Fall 2018

Folk Witness

By John T. Edge

Issue 104, Spring 2019

Oaxaca Wreck

By John T. Edge

Issue 105, Summer 2019

Social Engineering

By John T. Edge

Issue 106, Fall 2019

My Mother's Catfish Stew

By John T. Edge

Issue 108, Spring 2020

Getting the Look

By John T. Edge