Salon explores the virtues of Kool-Aid pickles in an interview with John T. Edge, the bard of Southern food. Edge shares his expertise in the Ode to the South issue of Stop Smiling, along with Chef Leah Chase, another institution of Southern cooking. Also heading South is the LA Times, who canvass Memphis.

Appropriate, perhaps, to begin with the words of Gary Kamiya, who writes in Salon: “[Editing] is a mysterious thing…to most bloggers, who despite having been in existence for less than 10 years, probably outnumber every writer who ever wrote.”