There always have been taverns, inns, takeout places. If you have an urban society, you need to have places where people who, say, are from the countryside and going to […]
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Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge
by Becky Libourel Diamond From the publisher: In 1851, fifteen wealthy New Yorkers wanted to show a group of Philadelphia friends just how impressive a meal could be and took […]
Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
by Rebecca L. Spang From the publisher: Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating to be an enjoyable leisure activity or even a serious pastime? To find the […]
Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
by David S. Shields From the publisher: He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint […]
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
by Lisa Stoffer and Michael Lesy From the publisher: What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910. Before Julia Child introduced […]
Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
by Andrew P. Haley From the publisher: In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the […]
Ten Restaurants that Changed America
by Paul Freedman From the publisher: Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history […]