Michelin’s Guides Explained

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 09.24.09 | 10:58 AM ET

The Daily Beast demystifies the powerhouse foodie-travel guides from the tire manufacturing giant. Did you know that the books actually started out as road trip pamphlets marking the locations of gas stations and mechanics?

Tags: Food, Guidebooks, Road Trips, News and Briefs

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Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.

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