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 […]
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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 […]
McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial
by John Vidal From the publisher: McLibel is the unlikely but true story of how a pamphlet called “What’s Wrong with McDonald’s?” led to the longest trial in British history. […]
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
by Josh Ozersky From the publisher: This engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one […]
Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance
by Thomas McNamee From the publisher: In 1957, America was a gastronomic wasteland. One man changed all that. From his perch at the New York Times, Craig Claiborne led America’s food revolution. He […]