T. Lindsay Baker
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America's Mother Road
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America's Mother Road
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Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck's words, "Americas Mother Road," carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. The story of where they stopped and what they found reveals twentieth-century America on the move, transforming the nation's cuisine, culture, and landscape. Author T. Lindsay Baker drove the historic route in a 1930 Ford station wagon, stopping to sample the fare at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands. Start-ups that became American fast-food icons feature alongside mom-and-pop diners with flocks of chickens out back and sit-down restaurants with heirloom menus. Baker also notes the particular travails African Americans faced at every turn, traveling Route 66 across the decades of segregation, legal and illegal.
Format: Hardback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2022
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later,Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck's words, "Americas Mother Road," carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they were—adventurous motorists or Dustbowl migrants, troops on military transports or passengers on buses, vacationing families or a new breed of tourists—these 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 route—or at least the 85 percent that remains intact—in 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 went—even offering kitchen-tested recipes from historic eateries en route. Start-ups that became such American fast-food icons as McDonald's, Dairy Queen, Steak n Shake, and Taco Bell feature alongside mom-and-pop diners with flocks of chickens out back and sit-down restaurants with heirloom menus. Food-and-drink establishments from speakeasies to drive-ins share the right-of-way with other attractions, accommodations, and challenges, from the Whoopee Auto Coaster in Lyons, Illinois, to the piles of "chat" (mining waste) in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, to the perils of driving old automobiles over the Jericho Gap in the Texas Panhandle or Sitgreaves Pass in western Arizona. Describing options for the wealthy and the not-so-well-heeled, from hotel dining rooms to ice cream stands.
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780806190693
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