“House of Smoke”

Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, host of the National Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth and Garden and Gun columnist John T. Edge is known as one of America’s most powerful voices in food. In partnership with Buxton Books, join us with Garden & Gun’s Editor in Chief David Dibenedetto in conversation with Edge for a food-centric, not-to-miss evening that dives into the author’s own history this time – a journey that confronts some harsh truths of a Southern past, and the beauty that came from it.

If you are unable to attend the event, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies, Visit Buxton Books here!

Prior to the program, we invite our Fellows Members to enjoy Happy Hour from 5:00 – 6:00pm, downstairs in the Dr. Suzan D. Boyd Fellows Club Lounge.

About the Book

About the Author

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.

About David Dibenedetto

David DiBenedetto is the senior vice president and editor in chief of Garden & Gun. He is the author of On the Run: An Angler’s Journey Down the Striper Coast and the cohost of The Wild South podcast. A native of Savannah, DiBenedetto now resides in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife, Jenny, their two children, and their Labrador retriever, Story.