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By Robert St. John, READ MORE > 1,008 Reads
On Wed, 10/21/2020 - 04:11 PM

My Twitter bio reads, “dad, husband, citizen, restaurateur, 70% water (10% gravy), enthusiastic traveler, world-class eater, and a lover of movies, music, football, and food.” That sums me up rather accurately.

Life’s short, so eat a lot of appetizers

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On Wed, 10/14/2020 - 04:01 PM

There was a comical saying that made the rounds with my mother’s generation, “Life’s short, eat dessert first.” As a kid I used to see it on t-shirts, notepads and posters.

Missing My Friends Around the World

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On Wed, 10/07/2020 - 04:38 PM

On March 12 of this year, I was scheduled to fly to Spain with my wife, best friend, his wife, a television production crew and 25 travel guests.

Tough job ... but somebody’s got to chew it

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On Wed, 09/30/2020 - 02:01 PM

There are several stages in the life of a restaurant. The earliest stage is the research and development stage. Research and development involve recipe research, a lot of traveling around eating at similar concepts in search of ideas and inspiration and spending a lot of time online looking at similar concepts in that particular genre.

Be kind; make someone you love some pancakes

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On Wed, 09/23/2020 - 03:54 PM

A wise person once said, “The past is in your head. The future is in your hands.” If that’s the case, I’ve been spending a lot of time living in my head over the last several days as we have moved my mother into a new apartment.

Rosedale and the best BBQ shrimp in the Crescent City

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On Wed, 09/16/2020 - 12:20 PM

To be in the restaurant business and to live only 115 miles from one of the top three restaurant cities in America (#1 in my book) has been an embarrassment of good fortune for 58 years. Even before I got into this line of work, I benefited from living just a few miles north of New Orleans. I grew up eating all across the Crescent City.

Wandering Westward: Vol. III

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On Wed, 09/09/2020 - 10:16 AM

Life on the road is all about attitude. I have never minded road travel. I was raised by a single mom who funded our very limited – but wonderful – lifestyle on an art teacher’s salary. We didn’t have a lot, but I felt like I never missed a thing.

Wandering Westward: Vol. II

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On Wed, 09/02/2020 - 03:24 PM

The wife and I have been on the road for nine days. Just two people, one truck, and way too much luggage.

Wandering Westward: Vol. 1

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On Wed, 08/26/2020 - 05:36 PM

For the past several years I have spent three months each year touring guests and friends through various parts of Italy. On March 12, I was headed to Spain to tour 25 of our friends through that country: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, and Malaga.

Restaurant Mornings

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On Wed, 08/19/2020 - 02:57 PM

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
- Pablo Picasso

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