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Chasing Demons
The Gilded Road
The promise of the American road trip is bright. But Jodi Cash’s reflections on the road to Truth or Consequences cast a more complicated light.
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About the Journalist
Jodi Cash is on a quest for characters. Her work explores the relationship between people and place, and has been featured in The Bitter Southerner, Scalawag, Paste, Kinfolk, Hidden Compass, and Sirius XM’s Canada Talks: Native Traveler. She co-founded The Seed & Plate, which features stories about community, largely through the lens of sustainable agriculture.
In 2019, she published Concrete Jungle: A Foraged Fruit Cookbook, in collaboration with the Atlanta-based nonprofit of the same name. In 2024, she premiered her first documentary film, The Green Flash, which she produced and co-directed alongside her husband, Gresham Cash. It chronicles the life of a legendary pot smuggler, whom she wrote about in one of The Bitter Southerner’s Best Stories of 2016, “High Times and Low Tides at Reefer Beach.”
Originally from Atlanta, Jodi now splits time between her hometown and Paris.
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