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Robert St. John

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

Julia

…the luncheon in my home. The menu I prepared was 100% Deep South Mississippi, which she gave high praise, but while everyone else was in the den discussing and digesting…

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Rainbow Cookies

…much an iconic comfort food staple in the Tuscan larder, as the aforementioned chicken pot pie that I purchase at Jody’s. “This town has a love affair with rainbow cookies,”…

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The Wind-Up

…“Palate to Palette,” Waters and I are also completing our fifth book, and the final paintings for that project have been done over the past couple of weeks. It’s work—…

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St. Patrick’s Day

Combine hot sweet potatoes, sugar, eggs, cream, 1 1/2 sticks of the butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl; mix thoroughly. Add sweet potato mixture to greased casserole dish. Combine…

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Croats, Oysters, and Giving

…the Croats had fought a war during the Clinton administration, and from the news footage I saw, the country looked like a third world nation that had decayed under communist…

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Hunger at Home

…has risen almost 50% to 100,000 people. MFN supplies 320 food pantries and soup kitchens across Mississippi with over one million pounds of food every month, but there is still…

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A Planter?

…say, “Thunder in February, frost in April on the same day(s). “This year we had thunder on the 1st and 24th of February. Since we already have plants in the…

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RSJ’s Top 10 New Orleans Lunch Spots

…times and never consider scoring a meal from the small, cramped and cluttered convenience store on Royal and Governor Nicholls. To me, Verdi Marte is 100% pure New Orleans. Where…

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Home Away From Home

…ugliest town in Tuscany. Tavarnelle is the second ugliest.” Not in my book. Beauty comes in many forms. There is not a lot about Barberino-Tavarnelle that is architecturally significant, especially…

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