January 29} John T. Edge Lecture

 
Escape To Create's

John T. Edge Lecture on the State of American Food

Friday, January 29

6:00 - 8:00pm

Great Southern Cafe

$20

For more information, contact Escape To Create Executive Director Malayne DeMars at 850.534.000 or escapetocreate@gmail.com.

John T. Edge is director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, where he documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South. The SFA has completed more than 450 oral histories and 20 films, focusing on the likes of fried chicken cooks, row crop farmers, oystermen, and bartenders.
 
Edge has been nominated for four James Beard Foundation Awards, including the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. In 2009, he was inducted into Beard's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America.
 
Edge is a columnist for the Oxford American, a contributing editor to Garden and Gun, and he writes a monthly column, “United Tastes,” for the New York Times. Edge has written or edited more than a dozen books, including the Foodways volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
 
Edge has served as culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered, and he has been featured on dozens of television shows, from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef.
 
Edge was awarded an Escape to Create artist and scholar-in-residence during January and February 2010.  He is at work on a new project, for Workman, a cookbook that catalogues modern American street and truck food.
 

On Friday, January 29, 6 – 8 pm, Great Southern Café will host a lecture, slide presentation, and food tasting featuring John T. and his reportage of the state of American street food. Tickets are $20.