John T. Edge joins host Jennifer Zyman. S3:E3 of @thefoodthatbinds is LIVE with @JohnTEdge. Edge hosts @truesouthtv, which airs on @SECNetwork and @ESPN.

They discussed his journey throughout the food world, the South, the relationships that made him who he is today, and his upcoming memoir.

Edge also wears many other hats. He is a distinguished visiting professor in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program at the Grady College of @universityofga, a contributing editor at @gardenandgun, directs the Mississippi Lab, and serves the @southfoodways as a Founding director. His book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and others. He has won four James Beard Foundation awards. In 2012 and 2020, he won Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.

You can learn more about his wife Blair Hobbs' art and upcoming art show on her website.

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Host: Jennifer Zyman, www.jenniferzyman.com

Editor and producer: Carson Shanklin