Selling 'em by the sack : White Castle and the creation of American food / David Gerard Hogan.
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TextPublication details: New York New York University Press c1997.Description: x, 199 p ill 24 cmISBN: - 0814735673
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-196) and index
Hogan (American history, Heidelberg College) traces the history of the hamburger's rise as a distinctive American culinary and ethnic symbol through the exploits of one of the pioneers in the fast food industry, Billy Ingram of the White Castle chain. Comparing Ingram to the Henry Ford of eating, H