MISSISSIPPI ENCYCLOPEDIA and POTLIKKER PAPERS Recognized by MIssissippi Institute of Arts and Letters

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters has awarded The Mississippi Encyclopedia its 2018 Special Achievement Award, and John T. Edge, Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, has received the MIAL Nonfiction award for his book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.

The MIAL will host an awards ceremony on June 2 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson.

Learn more about the MIAL here.