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Robert St. John

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

Extra Table Christmas

…effective system: 1.) Extra Table receives a donation. 2.) Using bulk buying power, Extra Table uses 100% of the donation to purchase healthy food— at wholesale prices— from Sysco. 3.)…

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Extra Table Christmas

…system: 1.) Extra Table receives a donation. 2.) Using bulk buying power, Extra Table uses 100% of the donation to purchase healthy food— at wholesale prices— from Sysco. 3.) Sysco…

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The Loss of A Legend

Last week Austin Leslie, the creator of Creole-Soul food and a true New Orleans culinary journeyman, died in Atlanta. He was 71. Leslie, who most recently manned the stoves at…

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Simply The Best

…now possible for me to report where I was when I ate the best onion ring of my life— Crescent City Steaks in New Orleans. Purple Parrot Company Chief Operating…

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Destin Eats

…scene. Broiled flounder was passé and new preparations and techniques were seeping in. Beachside Café hired a classically trained chef from Joey’s in Baton Rouge. He brought classical French and…

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Lunch In Albania

…Each plate had a whole fish on it. I’m not talking about a salted-covered-and baked preparation, or the skinned-with-the-head-still-on style, or even the fish-on-the-half-shell type dish. No. This was a…

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Under the Wire and Off of the Press

Under the Wire and Off of the Press Today is the fifth anniversary of the release of a cookbook that almost wasn’t. Watercolor artist, Wyatt Waters, and I combined forces…

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Four Diamonds

Four Diamonds I am currently in my 10th year of writing this weekly column. For the last decade I have written approximately 750 words every week, 52 weeks a year,…

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Pig Farmer?

…read that sentence— my literary agent in New York, my editor on the Upper West Side, and others, from Peoria to Portland, who find this column on culinary websites or…

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