House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by Edge, John T.
House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by Edge, John T.

House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story...
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Author: John T. Edge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by Edge, John T.

House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

$45.42
House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by Edge, John T.

House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

$45.42
Author: John T. Edge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at the table is just one small step toward reckoning.

"A story for all Americans on a path to self-awareness, honesty, and love."--Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of Pappyland and The Barn

In this unflinching and moving memoir, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Born in a house where a Confederate general took his first breath and the Lost Cause narrative was gospel, troubled by the violence he witnessed as a boy, Edge ran from his past, searching for a newer and better South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to newspapers and magazines, he told stories that showcased those possibilities.

In the process, Edge became one of the most visible and powerful voices in American food...until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided, faced down the limits of his work, and returned to his origins to find himself once again. Beginning in Georgia and concluding in Mississippi, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place.

Author: John T. Edge
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.79w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780593241028


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2025

About the Author
John T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.
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