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Highlights
- Part memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all parts hilarious, Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns have learned during thirty years of sampling regional fare on America's back roads.
- Author(s): Jane Stern & Michael Stern
- 304 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Regional & Ethnic
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About the Book
In this laugh-out-loud culinary memoir, the Sterns tell the story behind their lifelong road trip, offering a front-seat view of smoke pits, boardinghouse-style restaurants, and cafes where customized mugs for regulars hang on pegboards.Book Synopsis
Part memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all parts hilarious, Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns have learned during thirty years of sampling regional fare on America's back roads. If you want a great restaurant, forget the Yellow Pages, ask the local cop--and avoid anything that calls itself "world famous." Sure bets are places with a giant plastic pig on the roof or pictures of Jesus on the walls. As the Sterns search for the Holy Grail of barbecue, they relate achingly funny adventures and misadventures, and what emerges is a big picture of America, revealing exotic eating customs that flourish right under our noses.
Review Quotes
I love Jane and Michael Stern... they [deserve] a room of their own in the Smithsonian, next to Julia Child's The New York Times Book Review
An effervescent memoir that leaves you craving barbecue, Coca-cola and (maybe) chitlins.Entertainment Weekly --