
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.

Allan Benton, proprietor of Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams in Madisonville, Tenn., cures and hickory smokes bacon and ham that have earned their place on the kitchen tables of working folks across the South, and on restaurant menus.

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

Riding shotgun with Tommy Tomlinson, author of "The Elephant in the Room," as he returns to Brunswick and St. Simons Island, Ga., where he grew up; Tommy joins the crew to walk the beach, play pinball, and take in a baseball game.