Admit it: you've eaten more than your fair share of noxious highway rest-stop food.

Stan Posner and Sandra Phillips-Posner know it's not easy to find deliciousness when you're just trying to get from point A to point B, so while they were researching Drive I-95, their insider's guide to the sights and secrets of stops on Interstate 95, they set out to catalog the best local food along the way, from Boston to the Florida border. (Their book goes beyond food, with history, trivia and maps, but the nosh is what really matters here.)

From all-day seafood breakfasts at Richmond, Va.'s River City Diner to chocolate-covered cherries at 90-year-old Furlong's Cottage Candies in Walpole, Mass., your days of choking down soggy chainburgers are over.