America's Restaurant Critic
Adventures in Good Eating: Good Eating Places Along the Highways and in Cities of America
Notes: The 42nd printing and the first for 1951. Duncan Hines is remembered for the cake mix that bears his name, but the reason for the cake mix is that he was the most famous restaurant critic in American in the 1940s and 1950s. He favored good, solid American food (even if it was Italian) and regional dishes, and he offered his favored restaurants signs showing that they were "Recommended by Duncan Hines."
Hines got his start in sales with a printing firm, and like many travelers, he got food poisoning with regularity. He started keeping notes on safe restaurants and collected recommendations from other road warriors. These started out as mimeographed lists and then moved on to printed guide books like this one. The books are intended for travelers and while he might list several restaurants in big cities, he also found the places worth stopping between destinations, with most towns rating just one restaurant.
Hines was a big believer in fresh produce and clean kitchens. He told his readers to ignore the flashy chrome in the front of the house and to instead see what was going on in the kitchen.
323 pages.
Edition + Condition: A fine copy in red wrappers (paperback). An unusually nice copy.
Publication: Bowling Green, KY: Adventures in Good Eating, 1951.
Item No: #306920
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