Popular Plates magazine is devoting its current issue to food and restaurants along Route 66. This particular magazine boasts the added cachet of employing Michael and Jane Stern, authors of the popular “Roadfood” book and website, as the editors.
The magazine is 96 pages and costs $9.99. It will be on sale at bookstores and other retailers (I found it Saturday in a grocery) through Oct. 3.
The magazine’s content includes a forward written by the Sterns, a history and overview of Route 66, 12 must-stop dining places on the Mother Road, an advertorial about a trip on Route 66 in three General Motors vehicles, specific food specialties from Chicago to Los Angeles, and more than 75 recipes inspired by Route 66’s regions.
The last part contains how-to-make instructions on cowboy caviar, Navajo lamb and hominy chili, horseshoe sandwiches, buttermilk pie, and even an old-fashioned beer-battered brain sandwich.
The magazine is sprinkled with short sidebar stories about Route attractions. And the photography is gorgeous and even scrumptious. I nearly groaned with hunger when I saw a close-up image of a slice of Texas pecan pie.
Some of the content from the Route 66 issue can be found online here. But the dead-tree issue is worth your money and time — especially with longtime road warriors such as the Sterns guiding the way.
You also can order the Route 66 issue from Popular Plates here.
If you are interested in this magazine, try your local Wal-Mart. I found it there this afternoon for $8.99. However, it was with the magazine racks in the book area with the other food-related magazines, not in the magazine racks in the checkout isles.
It appears to have alot of wonderful Route 66 stuff in there. I’m anxious to have time to read it now that I have it.
Thanks Ron, for the head’s up!
First of all I would like to thank you for the enormous work you do to provide us with regular updates about Route 66. It is a petty that we in Europe cannot order a single copy of Popular Plates. They just leave us the option to order 9 issues! Best regards from Switzerland.
Hugo Panzeri
PS. Next April I’ll be on the way! With 66: 66 days on and off Route 66 and the Canyons.