Jane Stern, Author . Crown $23 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4832-8
At 52, Stern, a well-known foodie—she and her husband, Michael, have coauthored some 20 books on American culture and food, including Roadfood—found herself profoundly depressed. Holed up in the couple's Connecticut home, she'd
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-394-57050-1
This witty and frivolous evocation of surfers, political protesters, Beatlemaniacs and others who made the '60s era what it was looks backward in fond reverie with occasionally breathless prose. The Sterns ( Elvis World ) don't intend to turn a...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With Alfred A. Knopf $35 (196p) ISBN 978-0-394-55619-2
The husband-and-wife authors (Real American Food, etc.) here enthusiastically examine the Presley phenomenon. This album, with more than 250 color and black-and-white pictures, to be published on the 10th anniversary of Presley's death, presents the
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With Harper Perennial $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-097290-5
According to PW , ``the husband-and-wife authors here enthusiastically examine the Presley phenomenon. This album, with more than 250 color and black-and-white pictures, presents the screaming teenage fans, the pink Cadillac, the fluff movies, song...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With HarperCollins Publishers $25 (286p) ISBN 978-0-06-016710-3
Respected arbiters of camp and kitsch, the prolific Sterns ( The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste ) currently focus their talent for connecting culture and food on an aspect of an era that, until now, has received little notice. While the lowbrow culinary...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With HarperCollins Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-092121-7
Lava lamps, Hawaiian shirts, accordion music and outlandish performer Charo are among the kitschy or lowbrow people, places and things affectionately featured in this entertaining, colorful reference book. Illustrated. $50,000 ad/promo. (Oct.)no PW...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With Harper Perennial $17.5 (489p) ISBN 978-0-06-096599-0
The talented Sterns ( American Gourmet ) hit the highways again for this update of perhaps their most celebrated work. And again, American backroads and interstates come to life through livelier, more active? the authors' almost Grail-like quest for
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, With Harper Perennial $35 (593p) ISBN 978-0-06-055343-2
America's pop culture mavens present an entertaining if arbitrary compendium of more than 200 people, objects and phenomena that have entered the collective consciousness since WW II. As with their Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, the Sterns' entries here
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, Author . Houghton Mifflin $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-72898-5
American food enthusiasts Jane and Michael Stern (Roadfood
) are back, this time sharing their favorite sandwiches served at their favorite restaurants across the U.States. Why focus solely on sandwiches?: "What could be more truly...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (452p) ISBN 978-0-547-05907-5
Veteran road dogs and James Beard Award-winning food journalists Jane and Michael Stern (Roadfood, Two for the Road) have what may be their best offering yet in this easy to use, consolidated guide to America's best off-the-beaten-path eateries.
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, Joint Author, Roger A. Caras, Foreword by Scribner Book Company $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-684-83752-9
The Sterns (Road Food) apparently love dogs as much as they do food. Their new book tells the story of two dogs: the first is a Labrador retriever named Parnell, who's being trained as a guide dog for the blind; the second is Clementine, the Sterns'
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, Author . Thomas Nelson/Rutledge Hill $19.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-4016-0138-6
The Sterns, authors of Roadfood
and other books about America's out-of-the-way, quaint, quirky restaurants, continue their trek across the country with this latest offering. Part traditional chrome and Formica diner, part conventional...
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Jane Stern, Author, Michael Stern, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (292p) ISBN 978-0-618-32963-2
The authors of Roadfood
are crazy for American local food, that often informal, inexpensive cuisine that's not especially healthy but sure is tasty. The husband-and-wife team has traveled the country since the 1970s, seeking out the sort of...
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Jane Stern, Author, Martha Kaplan, Editor, Michael Stern, With Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-394-53953-9
The Sterns (Square Meals, etc.) contend that ""the `trend-setting' things that happen in the culinary worlds of New York and Los Angeles have little effect onand are of no interest toa huge number of happy, healthy eaters.'' One of the delights of...
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