"Writer John T. Edge has spent much of his career telling stories about a changing American South filtered through the lens of food and culture. He's published cookbooks and food histories, and he's been a contributor to the New York Times, the now-shuttered magazine, Gourmet, the Food Network, and NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosts the TV program True South."
""I told myself for the longest time that I was going out in search of something new, that I was running towards something when I was writing," Edge says. "I realized that because I wasn't writing about my own upbringing, my own life, I was actually running away from something and I needed to quit running." "Running" is the title of the book's prologue."
A Southern storyteller's career examined food and culture across the region, including the Mississippi hot tamale trail, Atlanta's multicultural Buford Highway, the history of fried chicken, and the cooks who fed civil rights activists. Personal history contains family turmoil: a gregarious Little League booster mother who struggled with alcoholism and a father who traveled the South as a federal probation and parole officer. A pivotal childhood memory describes the mother grabbing a gun and running out the back door, leaving a frightened child to follow and confront the possibility of suicide or spectacle. The life traces a search for home amid these tensions.
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