Books

In this, his eighth book, Robert St. John has compiled an all-encompassing memoir detailing what it was like growing up in the Deep South, and what life is like for a restaurateur, chef, author, columnist, husband, and father in the 21st century South.

Dispatches From My South includes chapters on childhood, fatherhood, family life, and the quirkiness and chaos of the holiday season. As he is wont to do, St. John strays into the dark world of strange foodstuffs and obscure eating practices. Follow along as he travels the country eating his way through the finest restaurants and the lowliest of joints. In addition to the greatest hits from his popular weekly food/humor column, this volume includes never before released writings, poems, and essays, as well as moving pieces written in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

St. John also includes his Top 40 recipes of all time in addition to 20 new, soon-to-be favorite recipes.

For anyone who grew up in the South, and anyone who wishes they had grown up in the South, even people who didn’t grow up in the South and didn’t want to grow up in the South, even for people who grew up in the Czech Republic, even people who… well, you get the point. Everyone needs to buy this book. So what are you waiting for?

Magic happens when a southern chef and a southern artist combine forces. The result: A Southern Palate, a collaboration between Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters combining recipes for culinary delights for the palate with visual delights from the palette.

Carol Daily of The Everyday Gourmet in Jackson says, “In the 21 year history of The Everyday Gourmet, A Southern Palate has set a record in cookbook sales.” Now in its third printing, the first printing of A Southern Palate sold out in just three weeks and the second printing in just three months.

Featured here are more than 130 of Robert St. John’s great recipes, including many of his signature dishes like Corn and Crab Bisque, White Chocolate Bread Pudding, Smoked Duck Spring Rolls, Sensation Salad, Zydeco Chicken, and Crab Cakes Monica. Thirty-four previously unpublished Wyatt Waters paintings, most created specifically for this book, add beautiful and colorful garnish to the sumptuous recipes.

Share St. John’s passion for good food, devotion to friends and family, and zest for life. A Southern Palate is a mouth-watering and soul-satisfying treat that will satiate your hunger for food and so much more.

Deep South Staples is a cookbook for the generation who wasn’t paying attention while their grandmother slaved over the stove making chicken and dumplings, corn bread and banana pudding.

Building upon the overwhelming success of his first foray into cookbook publishing, Mississippi restaurateur/writer Robert St. John is going back for seconds. St. John is soon to release Deep South Staples or How to Survive in a Southern Kitchen without a Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup

An Illustrated Seasonal Menu Coffee Table Cookbook
Southern Seasons is the long awaited coffee-table cookbook from the duo that brought you the wildly popular A Southern Palate. This must-have cookbook features 16 seasonal menus, showcasing 140 new, scrumptious recipes by Robert St.John and 59 new, beautiful watercolors by Wyatt Waters. Get yours now, St.John and Waters’ first collaboration sold out in only three weeks. Southern Seasons is available now. Order your copy today for yourself or send a gift to your favorite chef.

All of the secret grilling techniques of the South are divulged by one of the South’s premier Chef/Restaurateurs. Okay, we are kidding about ALL of the secrets, but if you want delicious recipes and grilling techniques that will help you make the most of an outdoor event, New South Grilling is your manual to success. Some of the topics covered are: How to grill fish without fear—and without burning it; Suggestions for grilling with your children; Versatile make-ahead marinades to use throughout the week; Common misconceptions about grilling; What non-Southerners should know about Southern food; How to prepare several meals with one grilling session; and Why grilling shouldn’t be confined to the main course. Sorry we don’t cover how to light that 12 year old rusty grill you refuse to throw out.

Essay Compilation
Award-winning chef and food writer, Robert St.John, and two-time Pulitzer finalst for editorial cartoons, Marshall Ramsey, combine their talents to produce one of the funniest books to hit the shelves in years. Nobody’s Poet includes over 110 of St.John’s best food columns and over 100 of Ramsey’s cartoons.

“Like most great cooks, Robert St.John is a brilliant observer of human nature and of the culture at large. Everybody should read this book and then they should head South and start eating.”
-Julia Reed, senior writer, Vogue

“Robert St.John’s new book, indeed every word he has ever written, makes me hungry. It also makes me LAUGH, which, in turn, makes me hungry. I am completely happy with this book, and that makes me hungry.”
-Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love

The engaging and downright hilarious author of Deep South Staples returns with an irresistible guide to entertaining, Southern-style.

Southern cooks are known as some of the best, most welcoming hosts in the world, setting out spreads filled with hearty, homey, and heavenly fare, enough to feed an army. And no Southerner knows how to entertain better than Robert St.John, chef, food columnist, and bon vivant extraordinaire. In Deep South Parties, he puts his own twist on cooking for a crowd, showing readers which recipes work best for which occasions, how to entertain large groups with ease, how to throw the liveliest holiday parties in town, and much more.