Road Food: How the American Highway System Invented Fast Food
6:00pm - 7:30pm
McDonald’s, Burger King, White Castle, Taco Bell, KFC – fast food is quintessentially American. But the development of fast food is deeply connected to improvements in transportation, the development of the personal automobile, changes in American agriculture, and the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system, which took more than 35 years to complete.
From Harvey Girls on the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to today’s interstate highway landscape of Anytown, USA sameness, food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson traces the origins of fast food and how it has impacted American culture and diets at home and abroad. Learn about how some of the most popular fast food companies developed, how the road trip influenced American tastes and expectations, and how the automobile changed the United States and its food culture for better, and for worse.
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