Lunch and Lit with John T. Edge

Schedule

Wed Oct 01 2025 at 11:30 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Lucy's | Auburn, AL

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Join us at Lucy’s on Wednesday, October 1st at 11:30am as we welcome author John T. Edge!
John T. Edge is the host of the Emmy Award-winning show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. He also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun and is the author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and Publishers Weekly.
Edge teaches and serves as writer-in-residence and director of the Mississippi Lab at the University of Mississippi, and mentors students in the University of Georgia’s low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction.
In his memoir, House of Smoke, Edge reflects on his personal journey through a South that has both shaped and challenged him. Raised in a home steeped in Lost Cause mythology, he sought to escape his past while reimagining a better, more honest South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, he became a leading voice in American food culture—until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided. Spanning Georgia to Mississippi, House of Smoke is a powerful story of identity, reckoning, and the complicated love of your people and your place.
Never been to Lunch & Lit before? Your $65 ticket includes entry to the event, a delicious lunch at Lucy’s, and a signed copy of House of Smoke!
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Lucy's, 1899 Ogletree Rd, Auburn, AL 36830-7606, United States

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