Ten Restaurants That Changed America
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871406802 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paul Freedman is a history professor at Yale University. The editor of the ICP Award–winning Food: The History of Taste and the author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, he lives in Pelham, New York.
Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Lavishly designed with more than 100 photographs and images, including original menus, Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a sign
Freedman’s book suggests that it’s not ultimately restaurants that change Americait’s the people in the kitchen.” - Victorino Matus, Wall Street Journal“Eminently readable.In a narrative that is intellectually delicious, Freedman presents a new way of thinking about ‘you are what you eat.’ This will appeal widely, engaging readers with both a casual or scholarly interest in food history and its influence on American culture in the late 19th and 20th centuries.” - Courtney McDonald, Library Journal“A robust historical trek through America's restaurant cuisine over three centuries. Witty, sensitive, surprisingly sensuousmore, please!” - Molly O'Neill, author of One Big Table“Paul Freedman, one of the world’s most learned food
AnnapolisGirly said A MUST READ for anyone interested in restaurant history. Wow.. This is a great book for anyone interested in restaurant/culinary history. The restaurants themselves are interesting, but what I found the most fascinating was how the author captured each era as it related to contemporary society. At first I thought this might be tedious, but once I read into just a few pages, I was completely engrossed by the detail and very thorough research which . Important restaurants in the cointext of their times Steven Peterson This is a very good book! It looks at a series of restaurants throughout American history. Paul Freedman, the author, says of his goal: "Reading about the ten restaurants gives me a sense of American diversity, and how these different experiments expressed a sense of love that is the basic ingredient of any major endeavor."The restaurants selected? Some great names and some surprises. . A Wonderful Social History of American Eating T. Marchessault Excellent gastronomic social history. The book reveals the changing styles & tastes of Americans eating out. A chapter on the Mandarin Restaurant, for example, is not just about that particular restaurant but includes the story of all "chinese" restaurants in America and why they are what they are.