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500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: and the Very Best Places to Eat Them |  | Authors: Jane Stern, Michael Stern
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0547059078
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.9573
EAN: 9780547059075
ASIN: 0547059078
Publication Date: June 4, 2009
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Product DescriptionWhat are the all-time best dishes America has to offer, the ones you must taste before they vanish, so delicious they deserve to be a Holy Grail for travelers? Where’s the most vibrant Key lime pie in Florida? The most sensational chiles rellenos in New Mexico? The most succulent fried clams on the Eastern Seaboard? The most memorable whoopie pies, gumbos, tacos, cheese steaks, crab feasts? In 500 Things to Eat Before It’s Too Late, "America’s leading authorities on the culinary delights to be found while driving" ( Newsweek) return to their favorite subject with a colorful, bursting-at-the-seams life list of America’s must-eats. Illustrated throughout with mouth-watering color photos and road maps, this indispensable guide is organized by region, then by state. Each entry captures the food in luscious detail and gives the lowdown on the café, roadside stand, or street cart where it’s served. When "bests" abound--hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, apple pie, doughnuts--the Sterns rank their offerings. Sidebars feature profiles of idiosyncratic creators, recipes, and local attractions. Memorable Mileposts from 500 Things To Eat Before It's Too Late: and the Very Best Places To Eat Them
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Product DescriptionWhat are the all-time best dishes America has to offer, the ones you must taste before they vanish, so delicious they deserve to be a Holy Grail for travelers? Where’s the most vibrant Key lime pie in Florida? The most sensational chiles rellenos in New Mexico? The most succulent fried clams on the Eastern Seaboard? The most memorable whoopie pies, gumbos, tacos, cheese steaks, crab feasts? In 500 Things to Eat Before It’s Too Late, "America’s leading authorities on the culinary delights to be found while driving" ( Newsweek) return to their favorite subject with a colorful, bursting-at-the-seams life list of America’s must-eats. Illustrated throughout with mouth-watering color photos and road maps, this indispensable guide is organized by region, then by state. Each entry captures the food in luscious detail and gives the lowdown on the café, roadside stand, or street cart where it’s served. When "bests" abound—hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, apple pie, doughnuts—the Sterns rank their offerings. Sidebars feature profiles of idiosyncratic creators, recipes, and local attractions. |
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 Improve the Food Photos! February 6, 2010
Carol Warren
The food photos in this book, which should be a highlight, are awful! Although the text motivates the reader to locate and eat the dishes, the photos are a turnoff. There should also be a link to send the authors the reader's own favorite noshes. For example, if you live in Imperial Beach or Coronado in the San Diego area, the Star-Lite shack's (open whenever the owner feels like it) cake donuts are absolutely amazing. And this reader doesn't even like donuts.
 Great, if you're in Connecticut December 31, 2009
A. Vahrenkamp (on the road)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love the idea of regional American cuisine, and as I travel nearly every week for work, guides like this are a wonderful tool to help find the best local favorites. Generally speaking, this guide is excellent: colorful, descriptive, honest, and well laid out. I have no beef with the "national" sections: comparing fries, pizza, pancakes, burgers, and ribs across the country is a great way to see how varied we still are.
I have a couple of complaints, though. First, Hawaii is completely left off. While I understand that driving to the islands is difficult, any survey of American regional cuisine must include the plate lunch, Waiola shave ice, ramen shops, Leonard's malasadas, Mr. Mandoo's giant steamed Korean buns, and Dim Sum in Chinatown (admittedly, this could have been in San Francisco too).
Second, and on the same trend, Asian food gets amazingly short shrift. I'm glad that many Southwestern and Mexican specialties get a write-up, but to include only Ichiban PB and to leave off such great Asian-American classics as sushi, dim sum, pad thai and more seems wrong. Consider Chinese food, which for generations has been a mainstay of American eating. Completely missing, yet I would argue that American Chinese food is much more American than Chinese.
Third, Connecticut gets WAAAAAAY too much credit. By my count, only California (68) has more entries than Connecticut (56). Illinois (52), New York (40), Tennessee (42), Texas (54), all have fewer great food places than tiny little Connecticut. Massachusetts, with twice the population and a similar ethnic mix, has only 23 entries. I appreciate the Stemed Cheesburger and New Haven pizza, but SEVEN ice cream places (compared to 10 for the other states combined)? That's just ridiculous.
Fourth, too often the authors take the easy way out and recommend the standard tourist-friendly location. Take for instance the Loveless Cafe in Nashville. They have fallen from grace a long time ago, and any Nashvillian will tell you that there are countless better places for country ham, biscuits, and banana pudding. Yet somehow, they still get a glowing recommendation in the book. A similar story in Chicago, where no local will swear by Al's #1 anymore, yet it still gets the #1 rating for Italian Beef.
But these are small things that can easily be fixed in a next edition. After all, when you add up all the foods mentioned, you only come to 269 (including two separate listings for doughnuts). When you add up all the restaurant listings, since most foods have several restaurants listed, you get 931. I don't know where 500 came from, but there are plenty more foods to be added to make a nice round number! Consider buffalo wings, guacamole, lox and bagels, fried green tomatoes, gumbo, green chile, she-crab soup, cornbread... all inexlicably left out.
All in all, a controversial tome, but still well worth enjoying, if for nothing else than to bicker with your friends and family.
 swan December 25, 2009
Swan R. Jungovic (white lake mi)
Worth every penny. As being retired 5 yrs ago we are able to travel across the country and we tried to visit as manyplaces as possible. So far our opinions about places mention in book are same as ours. Highly recomended
Great Resource November 11, 2009
G. Hect (Linden, Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We just got back from a five week road trip out west and back. This book was a great resource during the trip. We would spend a couple of days in a town and look to see what the book suggested. It was an adventure and the book provided an eating diversion from the regular hit and miss. It never disappointed, food was as described and made for destinations to see that we would not normally venture to. Well worth the purchase.
An outstanding acquisition that stands apart from your usual travel guide September 18, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Any traveler in America who wants to sample cheap eats and local specialties will find 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late the perfect take-along tote. It covers everything from beachside stands and Texas barbecue to regional dishes that don't get much publicity outside their hometowns. Maps, color sidebars of information, unique places to shop - and recipes - make this an outstanding acquisition that stands apart from your usual travel guide.
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