[1] 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.

Hines and his wife Florence began assembling a list for friends of several hundred good restaurants around the country.

The list became popular and he began selling the paperback book Adventures in Good Eating (1935), highlighting restaurants and their featured dishes that Hines had personally enjoyed in locations across the United States.

Open all year except Xmas.A very good place to stop en route to Cumberland Falls and the Great Smokies.

The column featured restaurant recipes adapted for home cooks that he had collected during his nationwide travels.

In 1957, Nebraska Consolidated Mills sold the cake mix business to the U.S. consumer products company Procter & Gamble.