The Politics of Southern Food with John T. Edge (Author of the The Potlikker Papers)

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Writer John T. Edge is a professional “observer of the South,” and in The Potlikker Papers, his “food history of the modern South,” he looks at the ways in which the region’s culinary traditions are inextricably linked with its history. On this week’s Upsell, he chats with Helen and Greg about the restaurants that fail to acknowledge the South’s troubled past, his vision for a multi-cultural future, and why food is power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to yet another episode of the Eater Upsell, a podcast from the Vox Media
0:05.8	Podcast network on which I, Helen Rosner and my co-host Greg Moribito, who's
0:10.1	right over there, talk to the most interesting people in the world.
0:14.0	Every single Monday morning, you will sign into your podcast listing device to find this
0:18.1	very episode waiting for you.
0:19.7	It's me and Greg and someone really, really interesting with something interesting to say about the world of food restaurants and the culture that surrounds all of that.
0:27.0	On today's episode, Greg and I are talking with John T Edge, the director of the Southern Food Ways Alliance, which is part of the University of Mississippi,
0:35.3	and author of the brand new book, The Potlicker Papers, a culinary history of the modern
0:40.2	South.
0:41.2	It's a pretty incredible book. John T. is a pretty incredible book.
0:43.4	John T is a pretty incredible dude and if I say so myself,
0:46.8	Greg and I have a pretty incredible conversation with him.
0:49.4	But first, I want to check in with you, Greg.
0:52.2	How's it going.
0:52.8	Hey Helen I'm doing good. How are you doing this this afternoon?
0:56.7	It's beautiful. It's a beautiful day in this windowless podcast recording studio.
1:00.9	I know such a lovely view right? Love it the walls the soundproofing.
1:04.8	Hey Helen you know my beat which is pop culture and kind of viral things for
1:09.4	Eater inevitably I end up covering some kind of weird things and there is a thing this week that I wrote about which just I don't quite understand it and that is there is this shoe that looks like a slice of pizza.
1:24.0	Have you seen this?
1:24.8	I have.
1:25.8	This is part of this Adidas 50 states, 50 shoes thing, right?
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