A New Orleans native named John Currence transformed the college town of Oxford, Miss., into one of the dining capitals of the South. His favorite meal growing up in the Crescent City was breakfast. He remembers having pancakes at his grandmother's house with Louisiana cane syrup, bacon-and-egg sandwiches at Allgood's in Uptown New Orleans with his father, and the occasional Sunday brunch at Commander's Palace in the Garden District.