Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom Audiobook (Free)

‘Adam Chandler delivers his tribute to fast food with affection, zeal, and some humor… Mainly an aficionado, he narrates his burger-infused stories energetically and persuasively.’ – AudioFile

The program is read by the author.

Most any honest person can easily admit harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Center of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between junk food and American lifestyle for the past about Drive-Thru Dreams: A Trip Through the Center of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom hundred years. The dark underbelly from the industry’s largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate and business, and even worse. But, in unpredicted ways, junk food can be deeply personal and emblematic of a more substantial than lifestyle picture of America.

With wit and nuance, Chandler reveals the complexities of this industry through heartfelt anecdotes and fascinating trivia as well as interviews with fans, professionals, and employees. He traces the market from its origins in Wichita, where White colored Castle became the first fast food string in 1921 and successfully branded the hamburger as the official all-American food, to a teenager’s 2017 plea for a year’s way to obtain Wendy’s chicken nuggets, which united the web to generate probably the most viral tweet of all time.

Drive-Thru Dreams by Adam Chandler tells an intimate and contemporary tale of America-its humble starting, its innovations and failures, its international charisma, and its own regional identities-through its beloved roadside fare.

Praise for Drive-Thru Dreams:

‘This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will excitement and educate food lovers of most speeds.’-Publishers Weekly

‘On the web page, terrific writers know how to have their wedding cake (or their Big Mac) and eat it, as well. Adam Chandler is normally such a writer, and Drive-Thru Dreams, his accounts of the outrageous and inalienable wonderland of American junk food, provides us not just insight and background but a pleasure that’s downright gustatory.’-Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize winning author of 3 Sections