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Article: Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age
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- Business History Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Copyright informationCopyright Harvard Business School Winter 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiii + 394 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-802-86109-8.
Reviewed by David Gerard Hogan
Although fast food is central to our culture and present in our daily lives, it receives minimal scholarly notice. The topic of food is only now becoming recognized as a legitimate historical pursuit within the discipline and still remains somewhat marginalized. Fortunately, new research and recent books are adding credibility to the field. Long the sole province of pop culturists and business writers, food and ...
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