by Michael Batterberry and Ariane Batterberry From the publisher: A nostalgic look at some of the notable eating and drinking establishments and their celebrated clientele, such sites as Brodie’s, Delmonico’s, […]
Tag: New York
Appetite City: a history of New York dining culture
by William Grimes From the publisher: New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen. In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us […]
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
edited by Andrew F. Smith From the publisher: Most comprehensive reference work on the the history of NYC food and drink, with approximately 570 entries Edited by Andrew F. Smith, […]
Urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate
In the 18th century, dining out wasn’t common…Restaurants as we know them didn’t exist and people mostly ate at their homes. Only travelers ate out and their options were taverns […]
Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
by Cindy R. Lobel From the publisher: Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you’d better believe there’s an app (or ten) committed to finding […]
Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York
by Joy Santlofer From the publisher: A 2017 James Beard Award Nominee: From the breweries of New Amsterdam to Brooklyn’s Sweet’n Low, a vibrant account of four centuries of food production […]
97 Orchard: a book about immigrant diets in New York’s Lower East Side
by Jane Ziegelman From the publisher: 97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits—shopping, cooking, and eating—of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of […]