Booker T was not going to lose his hair without a fight. The WWE Superstar wrestled Edge at WrestleMania X8, in one of the silliest feuds in WWE history. The two men battled over a shampoo commercial.

Edge, the former director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, has explored a wide range of topics — including the Mississippi hot tamale trail, Atlanta's multicultural Buford Highway, the history of ...

A new memoir from the southern food historian delves into the personal. It’s about the stories, and the lies, he was told as a white boy growing up in Georgia — in the 1960s and 70s. But "House of ...

“House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home” by John T. Edge, Crown, 272 pages. For the past quarter-century, John T. Edge has been one of the leading voices shaping how Americans, ...

John T. Edge, his father, John Edge, and his son, Jess Edge. Pableaux Johnson. John T. Edge has become known for his ability to tell stories and share history through food, particularly in the South.

John T. Edge grew up in Clinton, Georgia, raised in a Confederate general’s house that introduced him early on to the complicated legacy of the South. His childhood was complicated, too, and not ...

Writer John T. Edge has spent much of his career telling stories about a changing American South filtered through the lens of food and culture. Now he's talking about his troubled family's history. In ...