The Garden in Bloom
I thought I would write something about my garden this time around because my mother-in-law, Pamela, was a gardener and I have tried to emulate her green thumb. Some years I have things that succeed, and some years I…
Garden
Renovation of the Year
An Uptown couple who met in Washington, D.C., and got married in 2012, recently completed the home renovation of their dreams with the help of architect William Sonner (of William Sonner Designs) and Chris Kornman, partner at Entablature…
For The Garden | Spring is in the Air
Spring is here and as your joyous work begins, here are a few tips and thoughts from some of the city’s top gardeners: Amy Graham, director of horticulture at Longue Vue House & Gardens; Chase Mullin of Mullin Landscape; Kurt…
Shaping Up
Add interest, whimsy and elegance to the garden with topiary
5 Styles to Consider for the Garden
Beyond the sliding glass doors of a rear bedroom, my backyard offers a quiet, unused space. A corner palm offers shade, and vines meander along the surface of the fence. Other than that, it’s a blank slate. There is little…
Placecard and Favor Ideas for Your Next Dinner Party
Summer is over and the children are in school, so it’s time to plan dinner parties with a few friends. Here are a few favor and placecard ideas to make each soirée fun and different! We chose inexpensive items…
The Benefits of Being Outside
Gardeners have known it for the longest time: Communing with nature is a beneficial and healthy endeavor. Now there’s research to back it up. According to a recent study at Virginia Tech University, “A view of trees may reduce the…
Garden Decor
Peek into any beautiful garden, and you will find lush greenery, colorful flowers or a pattern of hedges that delights the eye. You might find towering trees, thick vines that seem to dance across an arbor or a fountain that…
How to Get the Perfect Lawn
Lawn care is even more crucial in the hot summer months.
Growing Jobs in Their Backyards
Small vegetable patches have long flourished in the backyards of Village de l’Est, a predominantly Vietnamese neighborhood in far eastern New Orleans, where many residents grow greens and herbs for their traditional home cooking. More recently, however, these gardens and…
A Second Look
“The Greater Gatsby Affair” for the New Orleans Town Gardeners, Inc.
Gardening 101 for New Orleans
Make 2013 the year you discovered your green thumb.
Profile: Johanna Gilligan
Founder, Grow Dat Youth Farm
Making a Scented Garden in New Orleans
I was 30 years old before I truly experienced the enthralling scent of a rose. Now I’d experienced hundreds of roses before that time, but it was early one morning, standing in Ruby Browning’s rose garden, that I experienced the…
Look Stylish in the Garden
Go beyond boring terra cotta pots and ugly garden shoes to embrace a nice, clean look while getting your hands dirty.
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A weekly blog on the New Orleans fine dining scene
about
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 in New Orleans 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 has practiced law since 1994, and began writing about food on his website, www.appetites.us, in 1999. He mainly wrote about partying that year, obviously.
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.
He began writing the Restaurant Insider column for New Orleans Magazine in 2007 and has been published in St. Charles Avenue, Louisiana Life and New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles magazines. He is the only person he knows personally who has been interviewed in GQ magazine, albeit for calling Alan Richman a nasty name. 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. 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, and some of which have not been defaced.
Robert lives in Mid-City with his wife Eve and their three children, and is fond of receiving comments and emails. Please humor him.
