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John T. Edge

John T. Edge
John T. Edge is currently director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. His cookbook, A Gracious Plenty, was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award, and he was a finalist for the 2004 M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation. His book, The Polikker Papers is available now from Penguin Press.


The Invention of the Rural Hipster

On the Gaskins, Going Back to the Land, and Old Time American Wisdom
July 24, 2017  By John T. Edge
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