| Ten Restaurants That Changed America Contributor(s): Freedman, Paul (Author), Meyer, Danny (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0871406802 ISBN-13: 9780871406804 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Essays & Narratives - Cooking | History - Cooking | Individual Chefs & Restaurants |
| Dewey: 647.957 |
| LCCN: 2016029340 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.5" W x 9.4" (2.90 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Combining a historian's rigor with a foodie 's palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. 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. Freedman also treats us to a scintillating history of the then-revolutionary Schrafft's, a chain of convivial lunch spots that catered to women, and that bygone favorite, Howard Johnson's, which pioneered midcentury, on-the-road dining, only to be swept aside by McDonald's. Lavishly designed with more than 100 photographs and images, including original menus, Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining social history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Freedman, Paul: - Paul Freedman is a history professor at Yale University and the acclaimed author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, which was named a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and praised as "essential" by the Wall Street Journal Magazine. He lives in Pelham, New York. |