. . . Winter 2003 How to Find Road Food Michael and Jane Stern are art historians—a field comedians target as the domain of impractical, impecunious romantics—who met as Yale graduate students. Michael had finished Michigan as a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Jane, an alumna of Pratt Institute, focused on painting and Michael on film. He earned an MFA in film history from Columbia in 1971 and published his Yale doctoral dissertation on the films of Douglas Sirk in 1978. For more on the Sterns, check out your library or their Roadfood (http://www.roadfood.com/) and Splendid Table (http://www.splendidtable.org/whereweeat/) Web sites. They also write a monthly column, "Two For The Road" for Gourmet magazine and appear on public radio's Splendid Table. I n 1993, the Sterns were masters of ceremonies at Julia Child's 80th birthday celebration at the Rainbow Room in New York, for which 21 of the city's best chefs prepared their specialties.
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