It was Mr. Edge’s column, and he shared it with Mr. Wey, who is Black, as a device to explore white privilege and its impact on Southern food culture. In the column and more bluntly in the ...

Edge is something of a ... What is Southern food? What’s your answer? Southern food is a kind of fitful dance between black and white. I think of it also as the proudest and best expression ...

bus to a white man, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers and ... as John T. Edge recounts in his book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.