A new show about a much-discussed idea, Southern culture, is set to debut this month on the SEC Network.

Executive director Wright Thompson, an ESPN writer, along with John T. Edge, the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a contributor to Garden & Gun, each Oxford, Mississippi residents work together on “TrueSouth.” It is described as the “intertwining of food and culture and sports in the South.”

The first episode is set to air at 7 p.m. ET  on Sept. 18 on the SEC Network.

Garden & Gun reported that each of the four episodes will include two different restaurants, and the food, chefs, pit masters, bartenders, and patrons that make them special.

In an interview with Garden & Gun, Thompson said, “SEC football is definitely a sport that people play, and people watch, and the score is kept, but anyone who lives here knows that it’s fourteen different other things, too, many of them cultural. It is reunion, and it is gathering. It is communion, and it is connection among generations.”

Edge added that food and football are expressions of people and place in the American South.

“You find your tribe, you root for your team, but you don’t do that out of context. You do that while you’re eating a barbecue sandwich, or you do that while you’re gathered around a table with your family. This show extends that conversation.”

Here is a trailer of the series.

“TrueSouth” John T. Edge | SEC Network Trailer from Bluefoot Entertainment, Inc. on Vimeo.