A History of Southern Food: PW Talks with John T. Edge

In his new book The Potlikker Papers (Penguin Press, May), food historian John T. Edge, who directs the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, traces the evolution of Southern identity through its food culture. [...]it was the subtitle of my graduate thesis. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor: she wrote Vibration Cooking: Or, Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl; she was a go-go dancer with Sun Ra's Solar Myth Orchestra, but in the cookbook, she tells stories...