Kentucky native and national tastemaker Duncan Hines (1880-1959) published his first cookbook Adventures in Good Cooking in 1939 at the age of fifty-nine. This best-selling collection featured recipes from select restaurants across the country as well as crowd-pleasing family favorites and it helped to raise the standard for home cooking in America. Filled with succulent treats from the Waldorf-Astoria s Chicken Fricassee to the Oeufs a la Russe served at Antoine s Restaurant in New Orleans