John T. Edge Praises Louisville Dining

I actually got to have a drink with him and some, what's the word, "connected" people in the Louisville food world (chefs, food writers, people I didn't know but can assume are very important, etc). I was very much the little kid who had somehow talked her way into the grownup table at this event. That didn't bother me much though because I was sharing the same space with John T. Edge. In my mind he's a freaking rock star. His writing on Southern food (the Miami Herald called him "the Faulkner of Southern food") and culture is legendary, his work on NPR's All Things Considered is mesmerizing. Not only does he talk about interesting things but he's got one of those great Southern voices and accents. I just love hearing him on the radio talk about food.

It thrills me to no end that one of my heroes in the worlds of food and writing has such good things to say about Louisville dining. It also thrills me to tell you what a nice guy he was when I met him. There's a risk in meeting people whose work you admire. Sometimes the individual can't live up to the image we've created in our mind. John T. Edge totally did. He was smart, funny, interesting and just a heck of a nice guy.