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Summary: Road trip!
Review: Few things can make the tedium of a long drive more bearable than the prospect of a decent place to eat along the way, and the restaurants listed in this guide are destinations in their own right. Helpfully arranged by sections of the country, road food aficionados will find more than enough to keep them busy. Personally, I wanted to take off and tour Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as old haunts in Virginia. Being in the opposite corner of the country, though, I found a number of interesting looking places here to check out (as well as one or two I've already been to, and so I can attest to the reliability of the Stern's reviews). I should note, though, that family members in Cody, Wyoming tell me that Franca's, which the Sterns list in this book, has in fact been closed for several years. So *caveat lector.* Things can change quickly in the restaurant world. Nevertheless, this is both a great reference and a fun title just for entertaining (if stomach growl-inducing) reading. If you're out on the road, be sure to keep a copy of this guide in your glove compartment.
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Summary: Good, but incomplete
Review: Good places to eat are hard to find. Finding an edible alternative to McDonalds or TGI Fridays is a must for long road trips. This book offers a list of good eats when you're a stranger in a strange land. The picks are generally pretty good although with I have encountered a few restaurants where I walked out wanting to write a stern letter to the Roadfood editors. But generally if it's in the book, it's a good meal. The main problem is that the book is mainly city centric, and is a finite work. There are some cities, and large pieces of states that have no entries at all. And if you know an area well, you may disagree on which restaurants they should have. Overall a nice book. If you use the roadfood web site, it has more listings.
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Summary: Good, but incomplete
Review: Good places to eat are hard to find. Finding an edible alternative to McDonalds or TGI Fridays is a must for long road trips. This book offers a list of good eats when you're a stranger in a strange land. The picks are generally pretty good although with I have encountered a few restaurants where I walked out wanting to write a stern letter to the Roadfood editors. But generally if it's in the book, it's a good meal. The main problem is that the book is mainly city centric, and is a finite work. There are some cities, and large pieces of states that have no entries at all. And if you know an area well, you may disagree on which restaurants they should have. Overall a nice book. If you use the roadfood web site, it has more listings.
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Summary: Endangered Species
Review: Here you will find short descriptions of many non-chain restaurants in out of the way places. Some complain that the food is predictably regionalized. Well, does one get hush puppies in Boston or Oysters in Nebraska? Of course it is sectional because that best describes our nation and its food character. The sad thing is that places like those described in the book are - or should be - placed on the Endangered Species List. On a road trip our west I said if I came to one more juncture with the same four or five places I was going to scream.
Needless to say the food in this book is not for those following the Atkins, Jennie Craig, or any kind of diet. It is filling, wholesome, fat food that tastes as good as it sounds. The real tragedy is that this book will entertain more by the reading than the actual eating. And, as another reviewer mentioned, this is not just a book on food - it is also a book about our great nation, its richness and diversity.
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Summary: Americana at its Best
Review: I always take this book with me when I travel by car. Without fail, it leads me to wonderful and quirky places to eat with Major Atmosphere which I never would have found otherwise. Local color plus. I do hope it will be updated and reissued.
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Summary: Excellent resource for learning about regional cuisine.
Review: I drove around the country in 1987 and used this book extensively. Very helpful. I like its format better than Roadfood.(a newer edition - Harper Perennial.1992) Many of the restaurants in the book are now closed, so don't rely on it. Refer to it when travelling but always call ahead.
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Summary: Roadfood - Don't Leave Home Without It
Review: I have traveled with the Sterns for many years (virtually!) I have most of their previous books on regional food and their pages are ketchup, mustard and butter stained with notes scribbled in the margins. When I heard that they wrote another new and updated version, I ordered one just in time for this summer's 1000 mile New England odyssey, make that vacation. Every recommendation was right on - priced right and exactly as described. This is important to note because I know in their "Eat Your Way Across The USA" release of a few years ago there were many out of date references. (We were disappointed last year in Wisconsin as our search for a Bratwurst joint ended at a boarded up and abandonded store front.) Happily, this one seems to be more current and we have yet to find a dead reference. If you love to eat and love to travel, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Good for trips and at home
Review: I just love this book. We do some traveling, and when your out on the road, its potluck if you are going to get something tasty, or not. We have found a couple of places we have really enjoyed with this book. For many of you, I think you will discover places that are just down the road that you may have missed that you will enjoy as well. The layout is easy to read, the descriptions are right on the money, and the book is very enjoyable. Its one that you should definately check out.
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Summary: Good for trips and at home
Review: I just love this book. We do some traveling, and when your out on the road, its potluck if you are going to get something tasty, or not. We have found a couple of places we have really enjoyed with this book. For many of you, I think you will discover places that are just down the road that you may have missed that you will enjoy as well. The layout is easy to read, the descriptions are right on the money, and the book is very enjoyable. Its one that you should definately check out.
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Summary: More than a food guide, a guide to America!
Review: I love this book's recommendations of restaurants. These are the places that make traveling fun, and the food you can't get at home. There's no other guide that I know that is so much fun to read, let alone use. But better than that, Roadfood is a window to the real America missed by so much food writing about hoity-toity restaurants. If you want to eat well, and travel well, there's no better way!
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