Michael and Jane
Michael and Jane Stern travel the back roads of America searching for good regional restaurants. After meeting at Yale University in the 1970s, the Sterns married and began a collaboration that has yielded more than thirty books, including the culinary guide, Roadfood, cookbooks Square Meals and American Gourmet, and non-culinary best-sellers Elvis World, The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, and Way Out West. In her New York Times book review of their recently published memoir, Two for the Road, Nora Ephron wrote, “Jane and Michael Stern deserve a room of their own in the Smithsonian Institution, right next to Julia Child’s Cambridge kitchen.”
The Sterns are contributing editors at Gourmet magazine, where they write a monthly column titled “Roadfood,” taking readers to downhome restaurants in small towns and cities all around the U.S. Their website, www.roadfood.com, averages over four million page views and a half million unique visitors each month and has won awards as best internet food site from PC Magazine, Forbes and Yahoo.com. Each week, Jane and Michael contribute a “Two for the Road” segment to “The Splendid Table” on Public Radio.
Every year from 1995 to 1999, and again in 2004, the Sterns’ Gourmet column has been nominated for a James Beard Award for Best Magazine Writing, an award won that they won in 1997 and 1999. In 1992, Jane and Michael received the Perrier Jouet Award for lifetime achievement and were inducted into the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America.
