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Ambulance Girl- (Purchase at Amazon.com)
In addition to being part of the Roadfood team, Jane Stern is an Emergency Medical Technician. Her book Ambulance Girl tells the story of how she managed to cure herself of mid-life phobias and depression by becoming an EMT. It is a book that is laugh-out-loud funny, also compassionate and touching. Jane takes you with her through the 140- hour “boot camp” EMT course given by an ex-marine, then on the ambulance calls where the real tales of life in a small town are astonishing, maddening, and hilarious in turn. Jane saved her own life by becoming an EMT. Her book is an opportunity to share that journey.
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The Harry Caray's Restaurant Cookbook - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
Holy Cow! It’s another Roadfood cookbook, this one from the Chicago restaurant originally opened by the voice of the Cubs, sportscaster Harry Caray. Harry is gone, but the place he began has become what is arguably the top steak house in the Windy City, serving not only prime beef but also great Italian food (Harry was born Harry Carabina). This book contains recipes for the best dishes in the house, including those unique Chicagoland specialties, shrimp de Jonghe and chicken Vesuvio. Its pages are also filled with photographs of Harry and the museum’s worth of baseball memorabilia that decorates the dining rooms, plus stories about the extremely colorful life of America’s best-known and most-loved baseball fan.
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The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
Here is the first in a series of Roadfood cookbooks from America’s favorite regional eateries. Voted "Best Small-Town Restaurant in the South" by readers of Southern Living magazine, The Blue Willow Inn of Social Circle, Georgia, is a banquet of Dixie food. No one is allowed to leave hungry from its endless buffet, where dozens of vegetables, plus chicken and biscuits, are continuously brought fresh and hot from the kitchen. The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook contains recipes for all the Blue Willow’s best dishes, from fried green tomatoes to red velvet cake, plus a bounty of lore about the inn itself (which some say was the inspiration for Tara in Gone with the Wind), the town of Social Circle, and a culinary experience that writer Louis Grizzard proclaimed "authentic and delicious".
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Roadfood - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
First published in 1977, the original Roadfood became an instant classic. James Beard said, "This is a book that you should carry with you, no matter where you are going in these United States. It's a treasure house of information."
Now this indispensable guide is back, in an even bigger and better edition, covering 500 of the country's best local eateries from Maine to California. With more than 250 completely new listings and thorough updates of old favorites, the new Roadfood offers an extended tour of the most affordable, most enjoyable dining options along America's highways and back roads.
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Blue Plate Specials & Blue Ribbon Chefs - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
Jane and Michael Stern’s BLUE PLATE SPECIALS AND BLUE RIBBON CHEFS is subtitled “The Heart and Soul of America’s Great Roadside Restaurants.” This much-awaited culinary adventure is an ode to the most memorable Roadfood Jane and Michael have found in a quarter-century of eating. It features more than five dozen profiles of the cooks, waiters, and great places that have defined Roadfood, along with photographs of unforgettable people and places from coast to coast. Also included are dozens of treasured recipes gathered along the way, including Whoopie Pie Cake from Maine, Emmy’s Big Buns from Iowa, Fried Green Tomatoes from Georgia, Snoot Sauce (i.e. barbecue sauce) from St. Louis, and Dagwoodburgers from a genuine old-fashioned drive-in. This book is a great opportunity to join the Sterns on their lifelong road trip in search of good things to eat and great places to eat them.
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Chili Nation - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
The ultimate chili cookbook, with recipes from every state in the nation. From the classic Texas bowl of red and Cincinnati Five-Way chili to California's Super Garlic chili and Havana Moon Chili, here are America's favorite ways with chili, from mild to wild, and from mighty beefy to elegant vegetarian.
Along with recipes collected from some of America's most beloved chili parlors, Chili Nation features a mail-order guide to the best spices and chili peppers as well as chili lore from coast to coast.
What The Critics Have to Say:
"It has been the Sterns' advocacy of regional cooking that has helped push it into the culinary mainstream during the last 15 years."
-- New York Times
"Chili Nation is required cooking for anyone who loves that taste of Americana!"
-- Harvard Bookstore Staff Favorites
“Chili Nation captures the Sterns at their adventuresome best, chasing the endless varieties of chili that twist and bend across the country like the back roads on a badly folded road map.”
-- Marina Wolf, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
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Square Meals - (Purchase at Amazon.com)
The re-issue of a classic cookbook! Jane and Michael Stern's Square Meals, originally published in 1984, defined comfort food for many Americans. A book of recipes for meat loaf and mashed potatoes, pot roast and noodle pudding, goofy little pigs in blankets, and shimmering Jell-O molds, it has been out of print for more than a decade. The new edition will contain all the same great recipes - from the Roaring 20s through the "Leave it to Beaver" '50s and the convenience-crazed 1960s and 1970s, but will have more than 100 newly discovered vintage illustrations. For collectors of Americana, devotees of pop-food history, and anyone who simply needs a great classic recipe for bread-and-butter pudding, this cookbook will be a must!
What The Critics Have to Say:
"Square Meals, which might be called modern America's food diary, is simply wonderful. Achingly funny, poignant, affectionate."
-- Suzanne Hamlin, New York Daily News
"A funny and affectionate book. The Sterns, who over the years have distinguished themselves as sort of latter-day de Tocquevilles of American pop culture, extol the glories of classic American fare."
-- Bryan Miller, New York Times
"As thought-provoking as Proust's madeleines, perhaps the hippest tome of the year. Much more than a cookbook; it's a way of life."
-- Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Examiner
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