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House of Smoke

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House of Smoke

By: John T.. Edge
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The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story, of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. His search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food . . . until he realizes that gathering at table is just one small, imperfect step toward reckoning.

In this unflinching and moving memoir, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away, as he tries and fails and tries again to rewrite the stories he inherited. Born in a house where a Confederate general took his first breath and the Lost Cause narrative was gospel, troubled by the violence he witnessed as a boy, Edge ran from his past, searching for a newer and better South.

As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to newspapers and magazines, he told food stories that showcased those possibilities. In the process, Edge became one of the most visible and powerful voices in American food . . . until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided, faced down the limits of his work, and returned to his origins to find himself once again. Beginning in Georgia and concluding in Mississippi, his search spans the Deep South and charts a very American story of the truth telling and soul searching it takes to love your people and your place.

©2025 John T. Edge (P)2025 Random House Audio

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