John T Edge
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Hobbs-Edge/ TrueSouth SEC & Hulu/ a writer-in-rez @olemiss/ director Mississippi Lab/ prof @ugagrady/ author The Potlikker Papers/ House of Smoke, Fall 25
Oxford, MS
Joined January 2009
The airport can be a humbling place: Squeezed tight into a window seat, wanting for more sleep than I got, feeling sorry for myself, I glimpse down at the book the woman next to me is reading - “How to Understand Your Grief.” She looks up, tries to smile, looks back down. Scene.
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Oxford being Oxford: Sat on the front porch this morn reading, mail carrier stopped, asked what I was reading (Cool Town by Grace Hale), and then walked me through the plot of the suspense novel he is writing. Hooked me in a three minute pitch.
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“What Trump has described as an immigrant ‘invasion’ was actually a corporate recruitment drive for poor, vulnerable, undocumented, often desperate workers.”
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Hey @delta Mr Chase Ford, the kind flight attendant on 2441 this morn, addressed everyone he served by last name. He called me Mr Edge and called the folks in the seats in front of me by their last names too. All up and down the aisles. And this was deep in coach. He’s a marvel.
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People of Twitter, upset by my convictions that the 1906 Confederate monument should come down and the plantation honorific Ole Miss retards progress at the university where I earned 2 degrees and have worked for more than 20 years, please know that I've taken a stand.
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Mexican bakers in Texas were trapped inside for two days, so they made pan dulce for hundreds of Harvey victims
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I long resisted writing about my mother. More recently, I realized that I had to make sense of what went right and what went wrong in those Georgia woods. Sunday morn seems a good time to post MY MOTHER'S CATFISH STEW a new @oxfordamerican column:
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Hey, I noticed that, too. But that does not absolve this place. I want a Mississippi that will repel racists, not attract them or abet them.
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What a lady - “Her diverse career path “included managing two amateur boxers and managing a racehorse bid for a local bookie.” Leah Chase, New Orleans’ matriarch of Creole cuisine, dead at 96 -
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Can’t wait for y’all to see the new @TrueSouthTV episode tonight November 21 at 7E on @secnetwork Here’s a sonic explainer of our show, written by our exec producer, Wright Thompson: Jason Isbell Is Soundtracking the Modern South | GQ
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Just realized that my incessant texting of articles for my wife and son to read, is the digital equivalent of my father clipping newspaper stories and mailing them to me. Generational transfer for the 21st century.
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Here is my mother’s catfish stew recipe, in her own hand. What Blair now cooks borrows from this, and from a Scott Peacock + Edna Lewis recipe. We’ll post both later…
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That’s my great friend and colleague Wright Thompson, executive producer for TrueSouth, on the left. He joins me on my front porch in Oxford to talk restaurants we missed and where we’ll eat and drink when the plague lifts. Pour a drink & join us Thursday at 7E/6C on @secnetwork.
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We’re back! Season Four starts in Scott, Louisiana, the buckle on the Boudin Belt, hard by I-10. See y’all on the tee-vee September 12 on @SECNetwork All hail @Bluefoot_tv and WWT. Poster art by the brilliant @BurtDurand of Lafayette.
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Coming Tuesday. I’m really proud of this and hope you good people will watch or DVR.
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Proud as hell to work w/ Wright Thompson and @Bluefoot_tv to tell honest food and culture stories of this complicated place I call home. #TrueSouth debuts Sept 18 at 7/6 on @SECNetwork First show goes deep on Birmingham Greeks. Trailer here
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Good news from Marianna, AR. The Jones family texted me this pic of the rebuild on Jones BBQ Diner. Promising!
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Florida - In 1565, “free black woman named Luisa de Abrego married Spanish soldier Miguel Rodríguez. To date, their union is the oldest documented Christian marriage” in continental US, an interracial union that predates Jamestown by more than 4 decades.
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That's our boy Jess. And that's our family dining table in Oxford. To tell the story of my mother's catfish stew, we begin at this table, as Jess gets ready to go off for college. TrueSouth Bowman premiers Feb 22 at 7E on @secnetwork.
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When I was a boy, I peddled my Schwinn two miles to this bbq joint. It was a place of solace. And a place for a sandwich. Their sauce still courses through my veins. TrueSouth Bowman, SC (with a detour to Clinton, GA) premiers Feb 22 at 7E on @secnetwork.
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On this day of thanksgiving, @truesouth is grateful for the hundreds of responses to our Dublin, GA, episode. Notes like this one, full of heart and hope. If you missed it, or want to watch again with family, THE EPISODE AIRS AGAIN TODAY Nov 23 at 12:30E and 10pm on @SECNetwork
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Thanks @oxfordamerican This means a lot. Have now been writing this column for twenty years. Figured out how to write, while writing for y’all.
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Blair was inspired by recent political revelations to buy a new flag to fly from our porch.
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TrueSouth from @secnetwork is streaming on ESPN+. 12 episodes, in all their grease and glory. Travel with us from Brownsville to Beaumont, Athens to Shreveport. All hail @Bluefoot_tv
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When polls open Tuesday morn, I plan to be in line to vote for this flag, a flag for all of us.
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Please forgive self-pimp. Proud that @PublishersWkly named Potlikker Papers 1 of 20 best nonfiction books of 2017.
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Just dialed my two fellow nominees. What good people, what smart writing, what joy!.
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@kimseverson @awfulannouncing Thanks kind people. Getting out of the hospital this afternoon.
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We’re back! TrueSouth 2 premiers Sunday, Sep 1 on the @SECNetwork In New Orleans, Beaumont, Hodgenville, and Memphis, we talk burgers, neckbones, Louis Prima, man vs nature, and bbq. Proud to work w WWT @RozDSC @Bluefoot_tv @seventhtv Trailer >
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TONIGHT: TrueSouth premiers Feb 22 at 7E on @secnetwork. For this season, we lived in a bus for week, hauling across the Deep South. That bus was the brainchild of this guy, Wright Thompson, executive producer of our show. His belief in the power of narrative powered this episode
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I resist declaring anything is the best of anything. And I resist that impulse now. But I have to tell you that the jerk fried chicken from Rose’s Caribbean in Columbus, GA, is revelatory. (Monday’s only.) #TrueSouth @Bluefoot_tv @SECNetwork
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“Viruses are not partisan. Science itself is not partisan. Nevertheless Covid-19 has become a partisan issue here in the South because our governors have followed the lead of both the president. and Fox News, which downplayed concerns about the pandemic”
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TrueSouth begins season 3 from two of our favorite Oxford bars, St Leo & City Grocery. In a brutal pandemic that puts restaurants at risk, we check in on people across the South who steward the institutions we love. We take stock of what’s missed, and what’s gained as they reopen
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Ronzo eulogy, courtesy of Barry, another beloved Oxford son.
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When I moved to MS, two foods perplexed me. Hot tamales: How did they get here and become the state’s preferred drinking ballast? And buffalo ribs: I remember seeing signs by the road. I thought they were selling bison. Stay tuned for the new season of TrueSouth and these beauts.
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5pm on an empty porch at SnackBar with my bride, some bivalves, and a Bristow gin martini = Bliss.
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Like many of us, I miss New Orleans right now. Give me a shrimp po-boy dressed, and a cold, cold beer.
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Proud of latest column in @gardenandgun Thankful to editors there for ten-plus years of collaboration. Inspired by this pic, which I took at the end of a very good night at Upperline in New Orleans, I wrote of the joy that great restaurants make possible.
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I read this book last year. A great book helps me think in new ways and regard my actions with new clarity. This is that sort of book. In light of recent horrific events, this book offers a path forward, through the thicket of racist thought and deed.
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New @TrueSouthTV from @Bluefoot_tv on @SECNetwork premiers tonight, October 8, at 8E. Little Rock ahoy!
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Tonight , Nov 7 at 7E @TrueSouthTV travels to St Augustine for fried shrimp and smoked mullet and datil peppers and a beer by the beach. Can’t wait for y’all to see our latest on @SECNetwork
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I grew up 2 miles from Old Clinton Bar-B-Que in Clinton, GA. This was my boyhood lunch, one sandwich, one stew, a sliver of saltines, & a styro of tea. Much has changed here, too. But that vinegar sauce still catches in the back of my throat when I take a bite of sandwich. Bliss
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Thank you DC. And thank you @thelinehotel for the kindness. When we checked our this morn, after dropping our son @AmericanU the bellman hugged us goodbye. Onward.
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Our first episode of the new @TrueSouthTV season airs on Tuesday Aug 27 at 7C on @SECNetwork
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Proud of this tv show I get to make. TrueSouth returns Sep 1 at 630/730 on @SECNetwork. Join me in New Orleans as @JustinNystrom and Blair Boutte talk red sauce and eat a stack of onion rings at @MandinasRest (and @LiuzzasRestaura) Joy to work w @Bluefoot_tv @seventhtv and WWT.
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My father, John T Edge Sr, turns 90 today. Raise a bourbon, which he recently adopted after a long flirt with wine.
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On behalf of the @beardfoundation, I’m honored to announce this year’s America’s Classics Award from the South. Congratulations to Mr. Elihue Washington and the good folks at the Lassis Inn in Little Rock, AR! #BuffaloFishRibs forever. (Camerawork: Jess Edge)
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I hope you get a chance to watch this show with an open mind. And I hope that after watching it, you ask better questions.
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Proud to publish @nytopinion on Fannie Lou Hamer & the radical South in advance of Potlikker Papers release on 16th.
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Just spoke to a biracial book study group from Grace Church Cathedral, Mt Zion AME Church, and Mother Emanuel. They read and discussed my book, chapter by chapter, over the last few months. When I came to talk they fed me okra soup and opened their hearts. Humbled.
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On @SECNetwork Monday, November 4 at 8E, @TrueSouthTV travels the South Carolina Upstate to eat chili dogs with flea market shopper and short story writer George Singleton. Onward!
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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE @TrueSouthTV Season Five, Episode Five will premier TONIGHT January 16 at 930E on @SECNetwork Promise. Really, truly, it will. Come for Diamond Jim and Mrs Donna's caramel cake, stay for Minute Grill burgers.
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Really proud of this one. Jasper, Alabama @TrueSouthTV on @SECNetwork Tuesday October 22 at 8E Viva @Bluefoot_tv
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Morning @TrueSouthTV If you missed our Dublin, Georgia, ep @SECNetwork has scheduled 4 re-airs over the next 3 days. We've heard from hundreds of y'all who were moved by the courage of people of Dublin and the music of @JasonIsbell Thanks for believing in our little show.
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". the steak slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a T-boned minivan." Dining with Trump:
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Oxford people - Each year my bride @blairhobbs and my friend @Bigbadchef cook and serve birthday chili dogs and sausage balls to any and all. Join us tonight at 5:30 @CITYGROCERYOXMS ALL ARE WELCOME. No pretense, no presents, fat drinks, big fun.
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Debuts Tonight, Sunday the 16th, at 7E on @SECNetwork Get on the bus for Doe’s. All hail @Bluefoot_tv
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For tonight's episode of TrueSouth, (Feb 22 at 7E on @secnetwork) I cooked catfish stew beneath the overhang of a cabin on the Edisto River, near my mother's birthplace of Bowman, SC. All hail @bluefoot_tv.
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I wrote about my love for my father and my regard for the restaurants he taught me to love. If your day allows a quiet moment to read this , I would be honored.
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Look what came today, just in time for the debate! Fever dream by @blairhobbs Guest star, Eugene Walter.
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Nov 4 at 8E on @SECNetwork we take @TrueSouthTV to Upstate, South Carolina. Back in January, I walked the Pickens Co Flea Mkt w my great friend (and great writer) George Singleton. He spotted this old boiled peanut sign. And then let me buy it. This spring we returned to film.
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TrueSouth Memphis airs TONIGHT at 6:30/ 7:30 on @SECNetwork @zfelice shows us the way. 8Ball & MJG show us Orange Mound. Enkia Leach (pictured at Ms Girlee's) fries chicken and talks abt the meaning of service. All hail @Bluefoot_tv n @seventhtv and WWT. Proud, hope you'll watch.
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Rough day. Had to cancel @southfoodways spring symposium in Brmingham. And travel for other projects too. Right thing to do for all involved. Saving grace is that I get to go rock tonight with @TheGloryFires in Oxford @proudlarrys.
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@GovMikeHuckabee Hey from over here in Mississippi, where your racism and xenophobia turn my stomach.
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Can't wait for y'all to meet my friend Anthony, the beloved madman of pizza. @TrueSouthTV.HOT SPRINGS AR TONIGHT at 7:00E on.@SECNetwork.AND 7:30E on ESPN+
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Apololgies for all the pimping. Proud to share our first TrueSouth episode on @SECNetwork tonight (Tuesday) at 6 central/ 7 eastern. Please watch. And tell us what you think. Thanks.
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Tues October 22 at 8E on @SECNetwork biscuits & grits from Brown's Grocery in Jasper AL are prompts for a @TrueSouthTV conversation about fathers & sons, about what we leave behind, and what we carry forward. (My wife, an Auburn fan, would leave this A behind.) See y'all on tv.
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New episode @TrueSouthTV coming January 15! Join us for a romp across the belly of the South…
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Proud of my new @oxfordamerican column "Oaxaca Wreck." In May of last year, a Chevy Tahoe hit my little car head on. I lost time to injuries. But gained insights about why i travel and why I gravitate to bars and restaurants.
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Thanks Jay. Big team of big brained and big hearted folk at work. New season starts Oct 10 on @SECNetwork.
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TONIGHT Nov 19 at 9 Eastern on @SECNetwork take a @TrueSouthTV magical mystery tour -- 1,00O miles across the belly of the South. Our annual behind-the-scenes episode is here. Cameo bartender gig by my man Jess Edge.
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