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John T. Edge
Go to: John's SYR Radio Episode & MP3
John T. Edge is a contributing editor at Gourmet. He is a longtime columnist for the Oxford American. He is the food columnist for US Airways magazine. His work for magazines like Saveur is featured in the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He was a 2004 finalist for the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation.
Edge has a number of books to his credit, including the James Beard Award-nominated cookbook, A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South and Southern Belly, a mosaic-like portrait of Southern food told through profiles of people and places. He is general editor of the book series Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing, and foodways section editor for the forthcoming edition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
He is at work on four books that examine iconic American foods. Putnam published the first two, Fried Chicken: An American Story and Apple Pie: An American Story, in the fall of 2004. Hamburgers & Fries came out in July of 2005, Donuts in the spring of 2005.
Edge holds a master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and is director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an affiliated institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, where he dedicates his time to studying, celebrating, promoting, and preserving the diverse food cultures of the American South.
In 2003, he was named, “One of Twenty Southerners to Watch” by the Financial Times of London. The award recognizes “Southerners whose achievements will have a greater impact in the future, both on the national and international stage.”
Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his son, Jess, and his wife, Blair Hobbs, a poet and painter
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