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From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbecks words, Americas Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they wereadventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops on military transports or passengers on buses, vacationing families or a new breed of touriststhese travelers had to eat. The story of where they stopped and what they found, and of how these roadside offerings changed over time, reveals twentieth-century America on the move, transforming the nations cuisine, culture, and landscape along the way. Author T. Lindsay Baker, a glutton for authenticity, drove the historic routeor at least the 85 percent that remains intactin a four-cylinder 1930 Ford station wagon. Sparing us the dust and bumps, he takes us for a spin along Route 66, stopping to sample the fare at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands and to describe how such venues came and wenteven offering kitchen-tested recipes from historic eateries en route. Start-ups that became such American fast-food icons as McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Steak n Shake, and Taco Bell feature alongside mom-an

Author

T. Lindsay Baker

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806191621