The Porch Sessions Robert St. John Part One
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Robert St. John has spent more than three decades in the restaurant
business. Twenty-five of those years have been as the executive chef,
CEO, and owner of the Purple Parrot Café, Crescent City Grill,
Mahogany Bar, Tabella, and Branch in Hattiesburg.
St. John is a restaurateur, chef, columnist and author. For 12 years
he has written a weekly syndicated newspaper column. The Purple Parrot
Café, has been named the best fine dining restaurant in Mississippi
and just received its fourth Four-Diamond rating from the AAA Travel
Guide. Additionally, in 2011, AAA named Purple Parrot Café the
second-best fine-dining restaurant in the South (just behind
Commander's Palace). St. John has been named the state's top chef
three consecutive years and was honored as Mississippi Restaurateur of
the Year.
St. John served two terms as President of the Mississippi Hospitality
& Restaurant Association, and one year as Chairman of the Board of
Directors. St. John also served two terms as President of the
Hattiesburg Restaurant Association.
St. John has served as a director on the boards of the Pat Harrison
Waterway District, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Edwards Street
Fellowship Center, the Aldersgate Mission in downtown Hattiesburg, the
Mississippi Food Network, the Mississippi Tourism Authority, and the
Hattiesburg Convention Commission. He was voted Mississippi's Top 40
Under 40 by The Mississippi Business Journal in 1997 and was part of
the Leadership Mississippi Class of 1997.
At present St. John is serving his third term as a board member of the
Mississippi Arts Commission, where, in 2008 and 2009, he served as
Chairman of the Board. He also serves on The Lauren Rogers Museum of
Art Advisory Board, and is on the National Chef's Council for the
Chef's for Humanity Organization.
St. John was named the Pine Belt's Small Business Leader of the Year
in 2005 and in the immediate days after Hurricane Katrina was
appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to serve on the Commission on
Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal.
St. John is a charter member of the University of Southern Mississippi
Eagle Club Circle of Champions, and is the founder of The Purple
Parrot Café Scholarship for Hospitality Management students at the
University of Southern Mississippi which, for over two decades, has
helped students with tuition and expenses while working in the
hospitality field.
St. John has been featured in USA TODAY and appeared on The Food
Network, The Travel Channel, National Public Radio, Martha Stewart
Living and the Turner South network. He is the author of nine books,
including three collaborations with renowned watercolorist Wyatt
Waters. His newest book project was written in Europe while he, his
wife and his two children traveled through 17 countries on two
continents for six months. The book, An Italian Palate, another
collaboration with Waters, will be released October 23rd.
In 2009, he founded Extra Table, a nonprofit organization that
purchases healthy foods and ships them to soup kitchens and mission
pantries throughout Mississippi. His greatest achievement, however,
has been convincing his wife to put up with him for 25 years while
they raise their two amazing children.
St. John explores the roots of Southern hospitality with witty essays
and quietly sophisticated recipes --Time magazine
The Mississippi restaurateur, food columnist, and chef treats his
subjects with humor and a lot of down-home conversation. National
Public Radio
If he had accomplished nothing more, St. John deserves kudos for
making Hattiesburg, Mississippi a restaurant destination. His Purple
Parrot Café updated Southern cooking for a new generation--Booklist
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