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Robert St. John

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

Most Memorable Meals

…asked most often. It’s a hard question to answer, mainly because the reply changes so often. It’s not that I’m wishy-washy when it comes to memories; I think that current…

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Freeze! This is a Ham Up!

…out of the bar and was arrested. Brian Latuszek has been charged with aggravated robbery.” And people wonder why I never run out of things to write about. So much…

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Speed Eating

…maybe his mother and I are both responsible for the speed at which he currently eats. His sister eats daintily. Always has. We took her to Commander’s Palace at six-months…

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Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice, Breakfast Joints, and Life Without Lingonberries

…a great breakfast joint— a place that is representative of the entire community. That, and freshly squeezed orange juice. The Original Pancake House in Boulder serves excellent freshly squeezed orange…

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Ciao Rome, Eating Europe Week 11

…Period. When the server asked what I wanted, I posed a question I sometimes tender, “If you were eating here today, what would you order?” Often it’s, “In your opinion,…

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Biscuit Ladies

…subconsciously assumed I’d be able to replicate them. After 36 years in the restaurant business with 10 books in the can, I have yet to even come close. In 1997…

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Sheepshead and Tripletail Beware! Turkeys and Duck, You Are Safe

…the water, but I enjoy the “cooking and eating” of the fish most. We cooked a lot of trout, redfish, and flounder. We caught a lot of sheepshead back then,…

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Cat Head Biscuits

derivatives of the two or store-bought imposters. City biscuits are the like the ones my grandmother made. They were small, slightly salty, delicate, and light. Country biscuits are sturdier on…

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RSJ's TOP 10 of 2016

Every week for 17 years I have written this column, never missing a week. At the end of each of those 17 years I have compiled a list detailing my…

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