John T. Edge: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home
John T. Edge: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home  
Podcast: Special Sauce with Ed Levine
Published On: Fri Oct 03 2025
Description: On this episode of Special Sauce we talk to the terrific Southern food writer John T. Edge about his memoir House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home. His journey from a childhood in a small town in Georgia that in many ways still celebrated the Confederacy to running the Southern Foodways Alliance is a remarkable one.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices