Jane Stern
Jane Stern was a pioneer in the food and travel writing space. After her time at Yale, she and Michael Stern wrote food and travel reviews, guides and books before anyone even knew they needed them. Jane has been the recipient of three James Beard awards for her writing in Gourmet magazine, where she was a staff writer for 18 years. She has been inducted into the Smithsonian for donating culinary works and artifacts over the years. Jane no longer contributes to Roadfood.
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The Streamliner Diner is to restaurants what Fiesta Ware is to plates: retro, funky, fun and utilitarian. Whatever else you eat, side it with hash browns. Continue reading Streamliner Diner | Roadfood Restaurants
A few years back, country singer Ray Stevens invited a New York friend to join him at one of his favorite Nashville lunchrooms, a place called Hap Townes. The New Yorker was a professional efficiency expert whose business was telling restaurateurs how to be successful. When he and Ray arrived at Hap Townes, a one-room … Continue reading Meat-And-Three
The Lobster Bomb is reason enough to visit Ford’s, but factor in the salty shoreline setting and this might just be the most perfect meal you ever ate. Continue reading Ford’s Lobsters | Roadfood Restaurants
WITH THE EXCEPTION of the hot dog bun, there has never been an edible invention as useful as the ice cream cone. Eat it all and leave nothing behind but a napkin. No need to sit down, and only one hand is required. We’ve hardly ever met a cone we didn’t like, but these are … Continue reading Top 12 favorite Ice Cream Scoops
Located at Greenbank Farm in Washington State, Whidbey Pies makes sweet and savory masterpieces, some of the best pies anywhere. Salted caramel apple is a must! Continue reading Whidbey Pies Cafe | Roadfood Restaurants
Get yourself to Western Kentucky for great BBQ I see the food shows on TV where they go all over the place looking for barbecue,” says pitmaster Lowell Jewell, “and I think, ‘Why don’t you come to western Kentucky and eat the real thing?’ ” Good advice. Following the barbecue trail west of Louisville along … Continue reading Top 5 BBQ Restaurants | Western Kentucky
Ever since we first ate margarine-sauced pompano at Lusco’s, in Greenwood, Mississippi, a quarter century ago, we’ve considered the cotton capital of the world a destination dining city. Waiters sidle through Sears catalog floral-print curtains into Lusco’s private back-room dining booths as the plaints of blues musicians float from the sound system. It’s all a … Continue reading Best restaurants in Greenwood, MS | Hot Licks Delta Style
BEING LOVERS of cowboy boots, we thought we knew a thing or two about pointy toes. Then we went to Rome. When we saw the shoes worn by fashionable Italian men and women, we suddenly felt like we were walking around in clunking shoe boxes. One of our most vivid images from a week of … Continue reading The best coffee, pizza and bakeries in Rome | Roamin’ Holiday
Minorcan clam chowder looks like Manhattan clam chowder, and a first taste reinforces the resemblance. But soon a glow starts at the back of the throat, and after a few mouthfuls the heat begins to build. Midway through a bowl, your tongue is on fire and your lips feel as if they might go numb. … Continue reading Datil Be Fine