Before his name became synonymous with boxed cake mix, Bowling Green native Duncan Hines was a traveling salesman and restaurant critic whose guidebooks helped motorists find dependable places to eat. A historical marker identifies his former home and office and explains the real man behind the supermarket brand.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: history.ky.gov/markers/homeoffice-of-duncan-hines-1941-1959