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Robert St. John

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

Maw-Maw's Chicken Scam

It’s time to come clean. It’s a known fact, and I have written often, about my first experience cooking in a professional kitchen. It wasn’t until we opened the Purple…

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My Kind Of Town

…show for over 35 years. Actually, I’ve been coming so long I can remember seeing booths on the showroom floor that proclaimed, “Computers are the future of the restaurant business.”…

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Reflecting in the Delta

…Hook, Mississippi than anywhere in the country and it’s all due to one amazingly energetic and sincere lady, Candia Love. The community comes together around this woman. She knows everyone….

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Farewell. Thank you. Onward.

…five nights. Our executive chef, Linda Roderick, created an excellent menu. Chief Operating Officer and Purple Parrot Sommelier, Jerred Patterson, took care of the wine pairings. The menu was 100%

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Let the Riots Begin

…and dieting centers, where millions of angry fat people will storm the weight-loss offices and threaten to sit on their diet counselors until they receive instant cash-back refunds, while burning…

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One Thing

…to figure out if they can pay the light bill or go to the grocery store. Extra Table was founded on two key principles: 100% of the money we raise…

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Emily’s Gestapo

I grew up in a woman’s world. Males tended to die young in my family. My father died when I was six-year’s old, my paternal grandfather, five years before that….

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2007

…down our catfish shacks and barbeque joints. I would then use the closing paragraphs to take a few final jabs at vegetarians, diet junkies, and members of PETA before finally…

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Cereal Killers

…to eat kid’s cereal, and I still eat plenty of it when I’m not dieting. My children are in their late teens and have already grown out of the “kid…

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