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Fall 2007 • Vol. XXIX No. 4 • Book Reviews |

The Casual Reader

By André Bernard

 

Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food by Jane and Michael Stern. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, 304 pp. $24.00.

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André Bernard is vice president and secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The author of four books, he also compiles “Commonplace Book” for the American Scholar. He writes "The Casual Reader" for KR—occasionally.

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