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Jane Stern (born 1946) and Michael Stern (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 seek out restaurants serving American regional specialties. Married in 1970, they divorced in 2008, shortly after which Michael remarried, but they continue to collaborate.

Jane Grossman grew up in New York City and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Michael Stern grew up in Winnetka, IL, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968. They met as graduate art students at Yale University. In 1971, Jane earned an MFA in painting from Yale and Michael earned an MFA from Columbia University in film, but neither found work in their respective fields. Soon afterward, they began work on the book that eventually became the first Roadfood, traveling throughout the United States and eating at small-town cafes. Roadfood was published in 1977; the most recent seventh edition was released in 2008. The Sterns appear weekly on Lynne Rossetto Kasper's radio program The Splendid Table, are frequent guests on CBS This Morning, and maintain the website Roadfood.com. They also wrote a monthly column for Gourmet magazine for many years. Another magazine they've written articles for is Saveur.

In 1992 they were awarded a James Beard Foundation Award and have also received the James Beard Perrier-Jouet Award for lifetime achievement, all for their food journalism.

The Sterns have written numerous books on American popular culture, including Elvis World (1987) and The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste (1990). In all, they have written over 30 books. They are also book reviewers for The New York Times Book Review.

In 2003, Jane Stern published Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT, discussing how she overcame clinical depression by training and working as an Emergency Medical Technician in Connecticut. In 2005 it was made into a television movie, Ambulance Girl starring Kathy Bates.

The Sterns wrote a memoir, Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Food, in 2006.

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