Road Trip Eats 101 ― Ya Gotta Eat Here Places Across Kentucky

ROAD TRIP EATS screamed to be written. As a follow-up to Eating Your Way Across Kentucky, which became a best seller in 2007, author Gary P. West now thought the time was right to expose Kentuckians across the state to another 101 places to eat. But this time several bonus recipes from the eats are also served up.Road Trip Eats is a guide ... something to get you started. This guide clues you in to where good, simple food is served in out-of-the-way locations from one end of Kentucky to the other. The most age old question asked is, “Where are we gonna eat tonight?” Road Trip Eats takes the guesswork out of it.---- IT IS SAFE to say that no other Kentucky writer has been more prolifi in turning out books about Kentucky over the last decade than Gary P. West. And Road Trip Eats adds to the experience! Gary doesn’t just take someone’s word about a restaurant ... he visits them personally. “I want to see it and taste it myself,” says Gary. “How can I recommend it otherwise?” Over the years Gary has developed a knack for digging out fascinating people, interesting places to visit, and unusually good places to eat. This book is no exception.Gaining a feel for each community he visits is part of his formula for tying a book like this together. It is evident that Road Trip Eats is more than just the food, but equally about the Kentucky experience.

GARY P. WEST has simple criteria when it comes to writing books. “I only take on a project that I will enjoy writing about and I only write about something I think people will enjoy reading,” he says.West grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and attended Western Kentucky University before graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1967 with a journalism degree. At U.K. He was a daily sports editor for the Kentucky Kernel. Later he served as editor for the nation’s largest civilian enterprise military newspaper at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From there he was employed in the corporate advertising office of one of the country’s largest insurance companies, State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, Illinois, where he was a copywriter.He returned to Kentucky in 1972 where he began an advertising and publishing business. Along the way, for twelve years, he was the executive director of the Hilltopper Athletic Foundation at Western Kentucky University, and provided color commentary for Wes Strader on the Hilltopper Basketball Network.In 1993, he became the executive director of the Bowling Green Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. He retired from there in 2006 to devote more time to his writing.He is a freelance writer for several magazines in addition to writing a syndicated newspaper travel column, Out & About...Kentucky Style, for several papers across the state. Gary is in demand as a speaker and for book signings throughout Kentucky.This is his ninth book. Previous books are King Kelley Coleman: Kentucky’s Greatest Basketball Legend (2005), Eating Your Way Across Kentucky (2006), Eating Your Way Across Kentucky – The Recipes (2007), Shopping Your Way Across Kentucky (2009), 101 Must Places to Visit in Kentucky Before You Die (2009), The Boys From Corbin: America’s Greatest Little Sports Town (2013), and co-authored Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team Left Behind (2011) and Better Than Gold: Olympian Kenny Davis and the Most Controversial Basketball Game in History (2014).Gary and his wife, Deborah, live in Bowling Green, Kentucky.