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Jane Grossman Stern and Michael Stern (both born 1946) are American writers who specialize in books about travel, food, and popular culture. They are best known for their "Roadfood" books, website, and magazine columns, in which they find road food restaurants serving classic American regional specialties and review them. Starting their hunt for regional American food in the early 1970s they were the first food writers to recognize that this food was as worthy to report as was the haute cuisine of other nations. Since the Sterns began documenting regional American food in the 1970s many other writers and television personalities have used their pioneering work as inspiration. In addition to their early work with regional American food the Stern's book "Square Meals" (Knopf 1985) put "Comfort Foods" like Mac and Cheese, meatloaf and mashed potatoes on the culinary map. "Square Meals" did an audacious reverse spin on the tricked up and precious Nouvelle Cuisine food that was beloved by food critics at that time. Jane Grossman grew up in New York City, where she attended the Walden School and received a BFA in graphic design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Michael Stern grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968. They met as graduate students in art at Yale University and their first date, at Pepe's Pizza in New Haven, had a food focus. The couple married in 1970. The following year, Jane earned an MFA in painting from Yale and Michael changed schools and earned an MFA from Columbia University in film. Neither found work in their fields of study. After a short stint of producing documentaries for WNBC, a teaching job at Hunter College and another at Wesleyan University they began work on the book that eventually became the first ''Roadfood''. The book was conceived as a book on "truck-stop dining", funded with an advance from a publisher. The Sterns set out in their car to travel through the United States and eat up to 12 meals daily at diners and local cafes.〔 The resulting first edition of ''Roadfood'' was published in 1977; the most recent edition was released in 2011. In addition to their food writing, the Sterns have written numerous books on American popular culture, including ''The New York Times'' bestselling ''Elvis World'' (1987) and ''The Encyclopaedia of Bad Taste'' (1990). In all, they have written over 30 books. They were staff writers for ''Gourmet'' magazine for 18 years, have written for ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and are now contributing editors at ''Saveur''. They are also regular guests on American Public Media's public radio program, The Splendid Table with host, Lynne Rossetto Kasper. They have won numerous awards, including James Beard awards, and were inducted into Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America in 1992.〔(Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America ), the James Beard Foundation website, accessed September 16, 2011〕 In 2003, Jane Stern published ''Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT'', a memoir in which she described suffering from severe clinical depression when she was in her early fifties and overcame her depression by training and working as an Emergency Medical Technician in Connecticut. In 2005 the book was made into a television movie, ''Ambulance Girl'', for which actress Kathy Bates was nominated for an Emmy Award. The Sterns wrote a joint memoir, ''Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food'', in 2006. The couple divorced in 2008. Jane Stern now lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Michael Stern lives in nearby Bethel. They still travel and write as a team in spite of the divorce.〔Nanci G. Hutson, (Local 'Roadfood' authors' divorce does not end eating partnership ), ''News-Times'' (Danbury, CT), Friday, July 3, 2009〕 In 2011 they published ''The Lexicon of Real American Food'' and Jane Stern published a book on her little known but long-standing career as a tarot card reader. ==Bibliography== *''Trucker: A Portrait of the Last American Cowboy'' (1975, Jane Stern only) *''Roadfood'' (1977, eighth ed. 2011) *''Amazing America'' (1978) *''Auto Ads'' (1978) *''Douglas Sirk'' (1978, Michael Stern only) *''Horror Holiday'' (1981) *''Goodfood'' (1983) *''Square Meals'' (1985) (cookbook) *''Real American Food'' (1986) *''Elvis World'' (1987) *''A Taste of America'' (1988) *''The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste'' (1990) *''Sixties People'' (1990) *''American Gourmet'' (1991) *''Jane & Michael Stern's Encyclopedia of Pop Culture'' (1992) *''Way Out West'' (1993) *''Eat Your Way Across the USA'' (1997) *''Dog Eat Dog: A Very Human Book About Dogs and Dog Shows'' (1998) *''Two Puppies'' (1998) *''Chili Nation'' (1999) *''Blue Plate Specials and Blue Ribbon Chefs: The Heart And Soul Of America's Great Roadside Restaurants'' (2001) *''The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook: Discover Why the Best Small-Town Restaurant in the South is in Social Circle, Georgia'' (2002)(cookbook) *''The Harry Caray's Restaurant Cookbook: The Official Home Plate of the Chicago Cubs'' (2003) (cookbook) *''Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT'' (2003, Jane Stern only) ISBN 978-1-4000-4832-8 *''Elegant Comfort Food from Dorset Inn: Traditional Cooking from Vermont's Oldest Continuously Operating Inn'' (2005, with Sissy Hicks) (cookbook) *''Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food'' (2006) *''Roadfood Sandwiches: Recipes and Lore from Our Favorite Shops Coast to Coast'' (2007) (cookbook) *''500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: and the Very Best Places to Eat Them'' (2009) *''The Lexicon of Real American Food'' (2011) *''Confessions of a Tarot Reader: Practical Advice From This Realm and Beyond'' (2011, Jane Stern only) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane and Michael Stern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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