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Robert St. John

Restaurateur, author, enthusiastic traveler, & world-class eater.

ATTN: Chris Neugent

…have Honey Comb, Malt-O-Meal (Your branding team might want to look into a different name there, just don’t call the SPAM people at Hormel when it comes to renaming, they…

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Watershed

100 orders are prepared, when they’re gone, one must wait until the following Tuesday. As we were waiting for the chicken to arrive, I asked my dining companions, “Can you…

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Squashing Recipe Development

Recipe inspiration comes from many places. Sometimes it’s a thought out of thin air. Many times inspiration comes while dining in another restaurant while traveling. Other times a recipe is…

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I Am Not On Al Gore’s Christmas Card List

…statistical leader as the most obese state in the country, that means that I am writing this column from Armageddon headquarters. No wonder I’m not on Al Gore’s Christmas card…

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The Meat Question

…and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo.” In the end, the bill died in committee. After his African sojourn, Frederick Burnham…

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Shrimp, Smoke, & Shirley

…steady Saturday evening diet of Flipper, I Dream of Jeanie, and Get Smart, I was under the covers at 8:30 pm I can remember lying in my bed, fully awake,…

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Spring Has Sprung

…loved this time of year. Monet’s garden at Giverny was in full bloom every spring. Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and the inimitable Count Basie all sang…

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Endure

…is a beautiful thing. For a week or so we get to experience the cool evenings San Diegans live with year-round. But that, too, is what makes Mississippians special. It’s…

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Sam's Club

…She gave me the second cart that was filled with groceries— mostly Diet Coke several dozen boxes of 100-count frozen chicken breasts, and what looked like a 50-gallon drum of…

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