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Robert St. John

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

Move Over, Ralph Lauren, The Burger King’s In Town

…in a long time, but I wonder if they have gone the department store route and started posting a nicely dressed young woman at the end of the order counter…

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Dispatches From Zone 8

…part of the United States we call home is vegetable beef soup. It might be the quintessential cold weather comfort food. There is something about vegetable beef soup’s stick-to-your-ribs heartiness…

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The Wish Book

…Song” and it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. Though the zenith of childhood rummaging and snooping was in the Dodder’s den, in a cabinet, under the television….

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Amsterdam

…ahead. I never planned on being a tour leader. Nevertheless, sometime in my mid-fifties, it happened. It started when I took my family on an extended six-month tour across Europe….

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The Tuscany Top Six

…of the city. She still comes back into town once a week. She doesn’t order. They just bring her food. On the second visit to Mario, we sat with a…

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RSJ’s Top 10 Summer Foods

Now that we have almost reached August, it seems a perfect time to stop and appreciate the culinary bounty available to us as residents of the Deep South during summer….

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Peaches

…That theory doesn’t hold true with all canned fruits and vegetables. Canned asparagus is bad. There is nothing about canned asparagus that even comes close to fresh asparagus. Actually, canned…

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Fries

…Talenti gelato, chips, and a few frozen pizzas. In those instances, they approach the basket with a wide-eyed look of wonder and quickly have their expectations expunged, and mumble something…

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The Extra Table Smithville Project

…was donated. It started to fill up even before I left town, as members of the Providence Baptist Church, in the tiny community of Eatonville, made private donations of food…

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