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John T. Edge

John T. Edge, founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, began contributing to Garden & Gun in its first year of publication. He is the author of, among other books, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.

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The Pizza Bar serves up a slice of Old Florida

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Birmingham’s Ollie Irene re-raises the bar on bar food

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Atlanta’s modern meat-and-three

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The Roosevelt channels a Depression-era ethos into Southern riches

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A stop at St. James in New Orleans will have you singing the blues, and the cheddars

Food & Drink

Here are John T. Edge’s top ten dishes of the year––from lardo-wrapped fish to one hell of a tomato sandwich

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Hankering for biscuits the way they used to be? Pull over at the Pit

Food & Drink

A father-son search for pork and wisdom on Tennessee’s barbecue byways

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Part blue collar, part white tablecloth, the Admiral is in a class of its own

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Blending a little old with a lot of bold, Empire State South conquers new Southern territory

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At Rocky & Carlo’s, Louisiana history comes with a side of smothered macaroni

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Despite its L.A. Address, Animal does right by the South

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Tampa’s decadent den of meat still delivers

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Scratch satisfies the itch for baked goods done right

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Chef Sean Brock’s latest venture might just be the ultimate in Dixie dining

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To find the origins of Lowcounty cuisine, follow the chefs to Bertha’s Kitchen

Drinks

Four writers’ sweet reflection on a sour mash