Duncan Hines (person)

Hines, Duncan

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Duncan Hines (March 26, 1880 – March 15, 1959) was an American pioneer of restaurant ratings for travelers. He is best known today for the brand of food products that bears his name. Hines was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the son of a former Confederate soldier. His mother died when he was four, and he was raised by his grandmother.[1] Hines attended Bowling Green Business University, which later merged with what is now Western Kentucky University,[2] and worked in the American West for Wells Fargo and other companies before settling in Chicago Hines worked as a traveling salesman for a Chicago printer, and he had eaten many meals on the road across the United States by 1935 when he was 55. At this time, there was no American interstate highway system and only a few chain restaurants, except in large populated areas. Therefore, travelers depended on local restaurants. Hines and his wife Florence began assembling a list for friends of several hundred good restaurants around the country. The book proved so successful that Hines added another which recommended lodging.[3][4] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hines wrote the newspaper food column Adventures in Good Eating at Home, which appeared in newspapers across the US three times a week on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The column featured restaurant recipes adapted for home cooks that he had collected during his nationwide travels In 1952, Duncan Hines introduced Duncan Hines bread through the Durkee's Bakery Company of Homer, New York. Principals Michael C. Antil Sr., Albert Durkee, and Lena Durkee were the bakery proprietors. This was Duncan Hines' first foray into baked goods. By 1953, Hines sold the right to use his name and the title of his book to Roy H. Park to form Hines-Park Foods, which licensed the name to a number of food-related businesses.[7][8] The cake mix license was sold to Nebraska Consolidated Mills in Omaha, Nebraska, which developed and sold the first Duncan Hines cake mixes. In 1957, Nebraska Consolidated Mills sold the cake mix business to the U.S. consumer products company Procter & Gamble. The company expanded the business to the national market and added a series of related products. Also in 1957, Hines appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell the Truth. Hines died of lung cancer in 1959, 11 days short of what would have been his 79th birthday.[9] He was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the same series of Hines family plots as Thomas Hines.

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Lodging for a Night
Representative edition published 2018
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Adventures in Good Cooking
Representative edition published 2014
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Duncan Hines cake mix magic
Representative edition published 2003
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Adventures in good cooking and the art of carving in the home
Representative edition published 2002
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The Dessert Book by Duncan Hines
Representative edition published 2002
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The Duncan Hines dessert book
Representative edition published 1955
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Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
Representative edition published 1955
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The art of grilling, baking, barbecuing
Representative edition published 1952
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Adventures in good cooking and the art of carving in the home
Representative edition published 1946
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Lodging for a night
Representative edition published 1938
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Some Distinctive Recipes Personally Selected by Duncan Hines
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Duncan Hines Dessert Book
Representative edition published 2021
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The dessert book
Representative edition published 2014
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Adventures in Good Cooking
Representative edition published 2014
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The Duncan Hines dessert book
Representative edition published 1961
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The art of grilling, baking, barbecuing
Representative edition published 1952
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Adventures in good eating
Representative edition published 1951
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Vacation guide ..
Representative edition published 1948
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Adventures in good cooking (famous recipes) and the art of carving in the home
Representative edition published 1943
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Adventures in good cooking and the art of carving in the home
Representative edition published 1939
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Adventures in good eating for the discriminating motorist
Representative edition published 1936
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