John T Edge: 9 books
The Truck Food Cookbook
150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
It’s the best of street food: bold, delicious, surprising, over-the-top goodness to eat on the run. And the best part is now you can make it at home. Obsessively researched by food authority John T. Edge, The Truck Food Cookbook delivers 150 recipes from America’s best restaurants on wheels, from...
The Potlikker Papers
A Food History of the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**“The one food book you must read this year."
*—Southern Living
One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food*
A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary...
Southern Belly
A Food Lover's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald), reveals a South hidden in plain sight, where restaurants boast family pedigrees and serve supremely local specialties found nowhere else. From backdoor home kitchens to cinder-block cafés, he introduces you to cooks who have...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
Hog Meat and Hoecake
Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard’s book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region’s history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways...
Creole Italian
Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events...
Catfish Dream
Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.
Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities...
Recipes for Respect
African American Meals and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating...
by Fiction River, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything...