{"id":42651,"date":"2017-11-02T00:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T06:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=42651"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:46:47","slug":"robert-st-john-and-wyatt-waters-signing-mississippi-palate-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/robert-st-john-and-wyatt-waters-signing-mississippi-palate-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters Signing Mississippi Palate at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chef, restaurateur, and author <strong>Robert St. John<\/strong> and watercolorist <strong>Wyatt Waters<\/strong> are pleased to introduce their latest collaboration, a hardback book entitled\u00a0<em>A Mississippi Palate: Heritage Cuisine and Watercolors of Home<\/em>. The book marks the fourth partnership between the two notable Mississippians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>A Mississippi Palate<\/em>\u00a0delivers 105 recipes, each with a Mississippi connection. Readers will enjoy delving into these recipes for delicious favorites from the <strong>Hill Country<\/strong> to the <strong>Gulf Coast<\/strong>. The book includes easy-to-follow recipes for basic staples such as roasted corn, biscuits, and fudge cake. It also offers creative twists on common Mississippi standards, with recipes for Creole Catfish, Oysters Rockefeller, and Crawfish Mac &amp; Cheese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWorking on our fourth book together was a totally different experience than when we began working together 10 years ago,\u201d says St. John. \u201cBack then we were just getting to know each other, and now we are best friends who can finish each other\u2019s sentences. I think it shows in the work. I hope readers of this book will experience the fondness we both have for our state, its people and its food traditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The 136-page book is beautifully illustrated by Waters, who traversed the state to recreate some of its most indelible images, such as the Jackson skyline, roadside crosses on Highway 25, and the Canton courthouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy childhood was spent traveling the state and seeing the many unique aspects that make up its history,\u201d says Waters. \u201cIt\u2019s been a joy to depict the culture and traditions of different areas as I\u2019ve traveled with Robert to work on this book. I hope that readers will find some places they recognize as well as some places they want to visit and discover for themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters will be signing Mississippi Palate at <strong>Off Square Books <\/strong>November 8 at 5 pm.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef, restaurateur, and author Robert St. John and watercolorist Wyatt Waters are pleased to introduce their latest collaboration,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":42652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[5,642,448,4,11140,3,753,11139],"class_list":["post-42651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-off-square-books","tag-oxford","tag-robert-st-johns","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-wyatt-waters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-01-ms-palate.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}