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John T. Edge

John T. Edge is The Oxford American's food columnist and the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Articles by John T. Edge

ISSUE 80: Local Fare

Climatic complements, cultural ties, and transportation link the American South and Africa. Fittingly, Atlanta is now a beacon for African refugees. Resettlement agencies place three to five thousand refugees here each year, I learned over two days of bounding through Atlanta, visiting four farm sites managed in whole or supported in part by Global Growers.
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NEW SOUTH JOURNALISM: Local Fare

It’s a summer night, circa right now. I’m in the backseat, leaching liquor and perspiration onto the vinyl. Chris Shepherd, who spent the afternoon at a Vietnamese nail salon here in Houston, is digging his shellacked toes into the front passenger-side pile, while Bryan Caswell palms the steering wheel and blasts Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears through a removable-face Blaupunkt that would have gotten him laid in tenth grade.
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PHOTOS: The Magnolia Grill

We ate yellowfin tuna, dressed with a buttermilk sauce and tucked in a nest of cucumber noodles. And spring onion pesto-swaddled black grouper, served on a drift of creamy lemon grits. And banana pudding ice-cream cake, capped with toasted meringue.
Department: Online Exclusives
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ISSUE 64: In Through the Back Door

A white man clutching a brown paper bag stands in the dirt-and-gravel lot that fronts Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in the Arkansas Delta town of Marianna. Grease splotches the bag, a stain that envelops the bottom and flares up the sides.

Department: Vault
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ISSUE 68: Guest Editorial by John T. Edge

John T. Edge, THE OA's food columnist and our guest editor for the Southern food issue, visits a group of African-American farmers in Alabama who are reclaiming their land through a collective strength.

Department: Vault
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