Weekly Column

Recipe Inspiration

Recipe inspiration comes from many places. In the early days of our first restaurant, I ended up in the kitchen after our opening chef was […]

It’s Good Work If You Can Get a Hobby

My 45-year working career has been varied and full. The first official paying job I held (after three years of mowing lawns) was in the […]

Breakfast for Supper

When I was a child there were several absolutes growing up in my mother’s home. There were the obvious good-manner requirements of saying, “Yes ma’am,” […]

Eat Local

NEW ORLEANS— Every day of my life I wear a small button on my shirt, jacket, or vest— sometimes all three— that reads, “Eat Local.” […]

RSJ’s Top 10 for 2021

For the past 20-plus years, my final column in December is always a list of the top dining experiences I enjoyed throughout the previous year. […]

The Wish Book

As a child I started thinking about what I wanted for Christmas around the Fourth of July. I reached a certain age where I was […]

Radio Days

My neighbors a few doors down started decorating their yard for Christmas a couple of decades ago. At first it just started with a small […]

Wake-Up Call at A Gift Shop

It is book season. For many people, that’s the time of year when summer paperbacks are released, or the holiday cookbooks hit bookstore shelves. For […]

Walter Anderson, A Free Man

There are three constants that have been ever-present in my life from day one— food, music, and art. For the purposes of this column— and […]

All About the Mouse

ORLANDO— I have had a long history with this city. In the summer of 1972, when I was 10 years old, my uncle took my […]

On the Road Again

ORLANDO— Sometime in the next few weeks I’ll be opening a new restaurant, bar, and tiki bar in the Fondren neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi. Those […]

Legends and Icons

The chances of being in the presence of genuine, iconic, living, breathing, legends are few and far between, if ever at all. I don’t have […]