John T. Edge

John T. Edge is a prolific, award-winning Southern food writer,
TV host, Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi,
and a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. 


As a graduate student in 1998, Edge helped organize the Southern
Foodways Alliance, an organization he led until an unforeseen and
unnecessary controversy motivated him to retire in 2021. 


Edge is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun magazine
and a former New York Times and Oxford American
contributor. He also writes and hosts TrueSouth, an SEC
Network TV series that profiles people and restaurants impacting
the region's food scene. Currently, Edge is writing a memoir
scheduled for publication in 2025. He's written numerous books,
including The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern
South.


Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, an
acclaimed author and university instructor.