For more than 40 years, Bill St John has written and taught about restaurants, wine, food, and the history of cooking; he’s also written on travel, op-ed, and language. He taught for several years each at Regis University in Denver, at The University of Chicago, and was on-air talking about food and restaurants with Denver’s KCNC-TV for a dozen years. In Rome in 1988, he interviewed the nuns who feed the Pope; in 1990, he cooked on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express. He spent a week in 1997 as a Trappist monk at the brewery of Orval, Belgium, and in 1998 Julia Child took a 20-minute nap on his right shoulder.

Bill St John is also sober. A struggle that he deals with daily. I’m honored to have him on to tell his story.