Two for the Road（ISBN=9780618872688）

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.

Two for the Road 
What Would lesus Eat? 
Twelve Meals a Day 
The Perfect Roadfood Find 
Four for the Road 
Hear America Eating 
The Maryland Paradox 
Neighboring in Iowa 
Into the West 
Bringing It All Back Home 
The Invisible Northeast 
The Inedible Complex 
Reading Menus 
Surviving the Night 
Where Appetites Know No Bounds 
The Cow on the Roof and the Living Pig 
Sttates of Insanity 
A Place Where Nobody Knows Our Name 
In the Bondage of a Chef
Featured Restaurants by State 
The Recipes by Category 
Index