John T. Edge has spent much of his career trying to understand the South by closely examining the stories we tell about it. In this episode of Moore on That, he talks with Emily Moore and Will Caves about his memoir House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, the complicated inheritance of family and place, his over two decades of work with the Southern Foodways Alliance, and how he helped create the Emmy Award-winning show on the SEC Network, True South. It’s a thoughtful conversation about writing, food, memory, identity, and what it means to love a place enough to tell the truth about it.
Please enjoy Moore on That with John T. Edge!
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