John T. Edge

Francis Lam

Sara Camp Milam

"Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

The Best of Southern Food Writing

Cornbread Nation 7

Melody Izard

I had read a little book about fried chicken written by John T. Edge and loved his writing so much I decided to find another by him. I ordered this book. Well, he really doesn't write a dang thing in this collection of essays which have something (some not much of that something) to do about food.

It was still an interesting read, but not as good as expected.

My favorite thing to learn from this book was about Deep Springs College: An alternative 2-year college founded on academics, manual labor and self governance. The mention of this college is brief, but was titillating and I quickly became consumed with the sidebar of discovering what the heck it was all about. And THEN (serendipitously) I won the book, California, by Edan Lepucki through First Reads! And I'll be damn if that school that is referred to is not based on Deep Springs!! I love things like that!

Cornbread Nation 7 The Best of Southern Food Writing

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