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28 maconmagazine.com | August/September 2025 Central Georgia native John T. Edge has traveled the world as an award-winning food writer, but in his new book, he brings his focus back to home. S O U V E N I R S F R O M T H E House of Smoke STORY BY JOHN T. EDGE T o reach the Gray Inn and Suites, where I would spend my rst night in Jones County in four decades, I turned o Old Clinton Road, past the split-level where my boyhood friend Keith Martin lived. The air smelled of afternoon rain and mown grass. At the back of the parking lot, an Indian man in a white T-shirt and blue cargo shorts hoed a plot of skyscraper okra plants. "I'm Gujarati," the motel owner said, when I asked how he came to grow such a garden. "Welcome home," he said, when I told him how long I'd been gone. In 2020, my agent landed a deal for "The Light from Distant Windows," a book about my lifelong love a air with restaurants. The proposal traced the roots of my a ection back to Old Clinton Bar-B-Que, across the four-lane from my childhood home; the H&H Restaurant in Macon, where Mama Louise Hudson

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