Jane and Michael Stern

Education: Yale University

Expertise: American regional cuisine, Food and travel, Food writing

Jane and Michael Stern are writers who specialize in books about travel, food, and popular culture.
The James Beard Award-winning authors are known for their Roadfood books, website, and magazine columns.
For Serious Eats, they wrote a coast-to-coast culinary guide, a roster of must-eat, iconic dishes they've found throughout their 40-plus years of road-tripping.

Experience

For any food lover who’s ever heard the call of the open road, Jane and Michael Stern have been trusted, trailblazing guides for over 40 years. As the authors of dozens of book and the creators of the Roadfood website, the James Beard Award-winning authors have worked to both preserve and celebrate regional American dishes from coast-to-coast, ensuring that whether someone is tooling through Tulsa or rounding the bend outside of Boston, they’ll know just where to taste the most authentic, local flavors imaginable.

For Serious Eats, they wrote a coast-to-coast culinary guide, a roster of must-eat, iconic dishes they've found throughout their 40-plus years of road-tripping.

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

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