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Robert St. John

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

The Next Generation

…I chose communications since all my experience was in radio to that point. However, I had no clue as to what I wanted to do with my life. Flunking out…

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Mom

…mostly through safely spaced outside visits with an appointment. And even those appointments were limited. On Christmas Eve we brought her over to my house for a very small dinner…

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Eggnog

…use on my current diet. “How do you drink that stuff?” she asked. “Well, sweetie, I don’t drink it, I cook it.” She looked relieved. Believe it or not, she’s…

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Salt

…on an elevated place in my larder. For centuries salt was all that was used to season and preserve foods. Eventually people wanted to expand their options so the royalty…

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The Piney Woods Challenge

Yesterday I drove a carload of kids— under the age of 12— on a seven-hour trek that ended in Arkansas’ Ouachita National Forrest so they could attend summer camp. Early…

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Say Nay to Na (Or How I Got the High Blood and Lived to Tell the Tale- so far)

…rate would go up under these battlefield conditions.” “See you in six weeks,” he said. So here I am, a die-hard salt lover, trying to live on 1,400 mg of…

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I am about to be a vegetarian.

I’m not going to be one of those I-still-eat-chicken-and-fish vegetarians. I am going to be a die-hard, I-eat-nothing-with-a-face-or-a-tail vegetarian, a hardcore vegetarian, a no-turkey-with-my-tofu vegetarian. For the entire month of…

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Father’s Day 2024

By the time this column is published Father’s Day will be several days in the rearview mirror. That may be the case when it comes to the calendar, but I’m…

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Mama Alma

…her minivan at the Downtown Farmer’s Market in Hattiesburg, the dream never died. Every evening when they drove by the small ramshackle building on their way home after a workday…

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