Roadfood

Roadfood
AuthorJane and Michael Stern
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFood
GenreAdvice (non-fiction)
Publication date
1977 (1st edition)
Publication placeUnited States

Roadfood is a series of books by Jane and Michael Stern originally published in 1977. The term Roadfood was coined by the Sterns to describe the regional cuisine they discovered when they began driving around America in the early 1970s. Their focus was not on deluxe fare, but on everyday local food – barbecue, chili, fried chicken, apple pie – and the unpretentious restaurants that serve it: diners, small-town cafes, seaside shacks, drive-ins, and bake shops.

Roadfood was the first cross-country guide to regional American food.

Background

The Sterns, who had no formal training in cuisine or journalism, met at Yale University in 1968, married in 1970, and graduated in 1971, after which they left academia to explore the USA. At first, their focus was on popular culture in general, but after traveling around the country for a few years, they realized they had been keeping an informal diary of unknown and unique places to eat: inconspicuous restaurants that were, at the time, of no interest to the food-writing establishment. After three years of travel in a beat-up Volkswagen Beetle, staying at seedy motels, and occasionally sleeping in the back seat of the car, they drafted the manuscript of Roadfood, a guide to restaurants that were neither fast food nor gourmet dining, but were an expression of local foodways.

Spinoffs and updates

The Sterns have also written Roadfood columns for Gourmet magazine and Saveur and report regularly about "road food" on public radio's The Splendid Table.

The book Roadfood has been updated several times; the 10th edition was published in March 2017. Writing in the New York Times Book Review about Two for the Road, the Sterns' memoir of their pursuit of "road food", Nora Ephron commented, "Jane and Michael Stern write about ordinary food so simply and exuberantly that I couldn't help thinking, as I read this latest book of theirs (the 31st), that they deserved a room of their own in the Smithsonian Institution, right next to Julia Child's Cambridge kitchen."[1]

In 2000, the Sterns partnered with Stephen Rushmore to create Roadfood.com, the first internet website to include photos with restaurant reviews. In 2015, Roadfood was acquired by Fexy Media of Seattle, Washington.[2] After the sale, the Sterns remained in charge of editorial content of the website.[3]

Misha Collins hosted Roadfood: Discovering America One Dish at a Time on PBS.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Event archive: Jane & Michael Stern, Seattle Arts & Lectures, January 12, 2010, retrieved 2016-05-07
  2. ^ Gordinier, Jeff (June 2, 2015). "Serious Eats and Roadfood Are Sold to Fexy Media". New York Times.
  3. ^ Galarza, Daniela (June 2, 2015). "Serious Eats Is Acquired by Seattle-Based Fexy Media: Roadfood has also been sold to Fexy Media". Eater.
  4. ^ "Roadfood TV: Discovering America one dish at a time with our host Misha Collins". Roadfood. September 29, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  5. ^ Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael (2005-04-12). Roadfood: The Coast-To-Coast Guide to 500 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More. Broadway Books. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-7679-2264-7.
  6. ^ Jane Stern & Michael Stern (2011). Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 800 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More. Random House LLC. p. 14. ISBN 9780307591258.
  7. ^ Roadfood, publisher: Broadway Books, published: 2005
  8. ^ Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael (2017-03-07). Roadfood (10th ed.). Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-451-49620-1.
  9. ^ Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael (2014). Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 800 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 9780770434526.
  10. ^ Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael (2002). Roadfood. Broadway Books. pp. 32–33. ISBN 0-7679-0809-0.
  11. ^ Stern, J.; Stern, M. (2005). Roadfood: The Coast-To-Coast Guide to 500 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More. Roadfood: The Coast-To-Coast Guide to the Best Barbecue. Broadway Books. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-7679-2264-7. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

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