He also directs the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. Fast forward to today, and Edge profiles the South’s greatest cooks, including Paula Deen.Įdge is a two-time James Beard Award-winning author and a food historian who believes, “the best cookbooks are storybooks.” Edge is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, a columnist for the Oxford American, and a nonfiction mentor for UGA’s MFA. Edge examines how food fueled civil changes and brought the south together. Edge goes back in time and tells the story between historical figures such as Georgia Gilmore and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and the importance of cooking in the south. “The Potlikker Papers” sheds light on the connection between southern cooking, politics, social history and civil rights. Southeastern Booksellers Association also made “The Potlikker Papers” an Okra Pick. Edge, a nonfiction mentor in our low-residency MFA in Narrative Media Writing, recently published a book that has been named one of the ten best summer reads by Publisher’s Weekly.
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