Chef's Story

This week on Chef’s Story we have John T Edge, who actually, (for the first time in this show’s history) is not a chef! Nonetheless, Mr. Edge is known throughout the food industry as a writer and educator, especially within southern culture. Edge holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. He is director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, where he documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South. His magazine and newspaper work has also been featured in ten editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. In 2009, he was inducted into Beard’s Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America, and in 2012, he won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. Edge talks about a variety of topics in today’s episode, ranging from the history of the South and the Civil Rights Movement, the r