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Complemented by the authors' best recipe finds, a quirky culinary memoir chronicles their entertaining quest for authentic American cookery during their more than thirty years on the road across the United States, offering a colorful glimpse of the unusual eateries, unforgettable characters, and unique food they have encountered along the way. Reprint.
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Part memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all parts hilarious, Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns have learned during thirty years of sampling regional fare on America’s back roads. If you want a great restaurant, forget the Yellow Pages, ask the local cop—and avoid anything that calls itself “world famous.” Sure bets are places with a giant plastic pig on the roof or pictures of Jesus on the walls. As the Sterns search for the Holy Grail of barbecue, they relate achingly funny adventures and misadventures, and what emerges is a big picture of America, revealing exotic eating customs that flourish right under our noses.
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