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Podcast Excerpts from our Issue Ten interview.

Edge at Watershed Best. Photo by Yvonne Boyd.John T. Edge writes a monthly column, “United Tastes,” for The New York Times. His work for Saveur and other magazines has been featured in six editions of Best Food Writing. He’s been nominated for four James Beard Foundation Awards, including the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He’s a long-time columnist for the Oxford American. His many books include A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South; the revised and expanded edition of Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover’s Companion to the South, and four books on iconic American eats: Fried Chicken: An American Story; Apple Pie: An American Story; Hamburgers & Fries: An American Story; and Donuts: An American Passion.

Edge is editor of the Foodways Volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and general editor of Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing. He’s also director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Visit his website.

Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where Alimentum caught up with him by phone.