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Robert D. Peyton was born at Ochsner Hospital and, apart from four years in Tennessee for college and three years in Baton Rouge for law school, has lived here his entire life. He is a strong believer in the importance of food to our local culture and in the importance of our local food culture, generally. He is a partner at the law firm Christovich & Kearney LLP and began writing about food on his Web site, www.appetites.us, in 1997. That is approximately 72 Internet years, for anyone counting.
In 2006, New Orleans Magazine named Appetites the best food blog in New Orleans. The choice was made relatively easy due to the fact that Appetites was, at the time, the only food blog in New Orleans.
Robert has gills, but they are nonfunctional.
He began writing the Restaurant Insider column for New Orleans Magazine in 2007 and has been published in St. Charles Avenue magazine and on the Web site www.slashfood.com. He is the only person he knows who has been interviewed in GQ magazine, albeit for calling Alan Richman a penis. He is not proud of that, incidentally. (Yes, he is.)
Robert’s maternal grandmother is responsible for his love of good food, and he has never since had fried chicken or homemade biscuits as good as hers.
Robert once ate an entire goat, but it was very small, and he didn’t feel too good about it afterward. He did, however, feel better than the goat.
He developed his curiosity about restaurant cooking in part from the venerable PBS cooking show Great Chefs and has an extensive collection of cookbooks, many of which do not require coloring.
Certain parts of the above are exaggerations, but one thing is true: Robert appreciates your comments and e-mails, so keep them coming.
If you find that you need a more constant source of Robert in your life, you can follow him on Twitter.
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Reader Comments:
HATE TO SEE HIM GO, BUT GLAD HE CHOSE HIS FAMILY AND LIFE WITH THEM.
Don't know if someone has been hired, but must drop Jude Tauzin's name..He had to close Catahoula's in Grand Coteau because it started sinking as an our of town restaurant..He is a fabulous chef..
I was purposely mislead by petulant hostess when confirming my reservation. Being out of town, I repeatedly asked what the dress was there. When I showed up in my polo shirt and khakis, I was the ONLY person in the restaurant without a jacket. Despite the food and excellent service, I had a horrible experience as I was thouroghly humiliated. This experience has put such a bad taste in my mouth, that I will NEVER recommend this restaurant to anyone. In reference to the previous posters comments (Jacket not required, but preferred), I was from out of town, and inquired about dress on three separate occaisions. I really felt soooooo bad eating there, I just wanted to wolf down my food and get the hell out. It was obvious from my line of questioning over the phone I just wanted some basic info (Like...Jacket not required, but preferred), but the twelve year old I was talking to was either half asleep, brain dead, or passive agressive. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE way to treat customers.