Meals Worth Stopping For: Florida Format: Paperback

Florida draws some 70 million tourists a year, many of whom zip contentedly along the interstates from one theme park and beach to another. But then it comes time to eat. Meals Worth Stopping For: Florida gives visitors and residents alike delicious, homegrown alternatives to generic chain fare. The Gourmettes, two friends with the strictest of standards, have surveyed a ten-mile swath on either side of I-95, I-75, I-4, and I-10, and found the best spots for seafood, bar-b-que, Cuban, soul food, steaks, pancakes, sandwiches, key lime pie, you name it.
Included are easy-to-follow directions and cross-referenced indexes. User-friendly and fun, with around 100 entries organized by interstate, this engagingly written book includes photos throughout conveying the character (and characters) of individual restaurants, as well as sidebars on everything from local recipes to Florida lore.

Nancy Barber, a native Floridian and lifelong foodie, began her writing career at the West Orange Times in the center of the state. Currently she is a lecturer at Stetson University.



Jane Bolding’s youth in Arkansas was marked by great home-cooking. She then spiced up her culinary education with a decade of eating and working in the restaurant industry in Manhattan. Since the early 1990s she has lived and eaten in Florida.