
John T. Edge travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history.

John T. Edge travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history.

Focusing on the state of Arkansas, and on the river that defines its eastern flank. When the Mississippi River changes course, it leaves behind an old bend in the main channel called an oxbow. Lake Chicot, home to Lake Village, Ark., is the largest oxbow in North America.

John T. Edge travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history.

We head north to St. Louis, Mo., a city on the cusp of the South, built by wave after wave of immigrants; to know this place and its people, we develop a unified sandwich theory of the city that links Italian hot salami sandwiches from Gioia's on the Hill.