John T. Edge at The Garden District Book Shop

Schedule

Tue Oct 07 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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The Garden District Book Shop | New Orleans, LA

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Join us at the Garden District Book Shop on October 7th for an author event with John T. Edge celebrating their new book House of Smoke
About this Event

The Garden District Book Shop is thrilled to host author John T. Edge for his new book House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home on Tuesday, October 7th. Edge will sit down at 6PM to talk about his new book with New York Times writer BRETT ANDERSON followed by a Q&A.

The event is free and open to the public.


HOUSE OF SMOKE

The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at the table is just one small 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 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.

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John T. Edge writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.

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The Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania Street, New Orleans, United States

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