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Southern Foodways Symposium: Claiborne, Chang, Ballet Memphis

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John T Edge (pictured) was on Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table Sunday morning to talk about Craig Claiborne, the late restaurant critic for The New York Times and a Mississippi native.

According to Edge, Claiborne’s importance to American culinary culture is sorely under-recognized.

“He’s due,” he told Kasper. To that end, the SFA has renamed its lifetime achievement award after Claiborne. The winner will be announced during the symposium. And while Edge refuses to reveal the name, he hinted that the winner is someone who’s written about both food and music.