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John T. Edge

John T. Edge, writer and host of the television show TrueSouth, began contributing to Garden & Gun in its first year of publication. He is the author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. His memoir, House of Smoke, will publish in the fall of 2025. 

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In the city’s sprawling exurbs, home to some 50,000 Korean immigrants, John T. Edge and musician Joe Kwon taste a new kind of Southern cooking

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With Italian flair and Southern moxie, City House’s Tandy Wilson is giving other chefs plenty to chew on

Arts & Culture

Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, a look at the past and promise of the most democratic restaurant space of all

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Edward Lee lets loose and the flavors stand tall at Louisville’s MilkWood

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Step into the living room and grab a plate of chicken

Food & Drink

From boudin that’s gone global to a Caesar that’s all Florida to smoke-kissed chicken with an Alabama shimmer, these 2013 favorites from the hungriest man in the South are a serious helping of Dixie flavor––classic and contemporary

Food & Drink

Pat Martin’s three-state take on a barbecue classic

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Bakery meets beer garden at the funky Easy Tiger

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Our neighbors to the south know it as lechón. We call it barbecue. But there’s no language barrier when it comes to the joys of pit-cooked pork

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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