The city of Bowling Green will honor a native son next week.

Duncan Hines Days observes the legacy of the well-known author and food critic who was born in Bowling Green in the year 1880.

This is the second year the city has paid tribute to Heinz's name with a week long festival.

Organizers say it will celebrate Bowling Green, Food, fun and adventure.

He was a traveling salesman back in his day, and at that time before the creation of the car, he actually rode the trains and went by horseback, traveling all over the country, selling for a company out of Chicago.

And he kept a diary of all the places that he would eat and sleep in and stay overnight and then use that diary to recommend places where his friends and family to go whenever they travel or to remind him where to go back.

That diary was later published in called Adventures in Good Eating.

It would lead to more books on travel and lodging.

Before Michelin guides or before Yelp or anything like that.

He was the person that you could turn to and find out where quality, food, quality, safe places to stay were.

So at that time, he became an American icon for these kinds of things.

More than 50 groups will host at least 15 events throughout each week, throughout the week, including special menu items at restaurants and food trucks and a free concert next Saturday featuring Grammy winner and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Sam Bush.

6000 boxes of Duncan Hines cake mix will be handed out at various events.

Get the full schedule online at Duncan Huynh days dot com.