Jane and Michael Stern write books about travel, food, and popular culture. They are best known for their Roadfood books, website, and magazine columns, in which they seek out restaurants serving American regional specialties. They appear weekly on Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s public radio program The Splendid Table, are contributing editors at Saveur magazine, and maintain the website Roadfood.com. They have won three James Beard Foundation Awards and the James Beard Perrier-Jouet Award for lifetime achievement. The Sterns’ books on American popular culture include Elvis World (1987) and The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste (1990). Their memoir, Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food, was published in 2006. They live in Connecticut. Visit them at www.roadfood.com.
