Instructor: Michael Stern has written over 40 books about food & popular culture. Michael and his former wife, Jane Stern, wrote for Gourmet Magazine for 17 years. Their monthly column won three James Beard journalism awards. From 2021 to 2024, Michael wrote a weekly restaurant review, "Taste of the Town," for The Aiken Standard. Description: In this course, we will take a restaurant-by-restaurant look at Aiken’s restaurant scene. Restaurants that are romantic, fashionable, practical, boring, exciting, delicious, and horrible. What’s new, what’s gone, what’s great, what’s needed. Highlights and low points of the last 10 years. What is currently trendy? What do we have to look forward to?