The Restaurant
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The Invention Of The Restaurant
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Author : Rebecca L. Spang
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Invention Of The Restaurant written by Rebecca L. Spang and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with History categories.
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “Witty and full of fascinating details.” —Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste—about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. “An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant.” —New York Times “A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish.” —The Times
The Restaurant
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Author : William Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2020-04-21
The Restaurant written by William Sitwell and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with History categories.
The acclaimed food critic’s two-thousand-year history of going out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Starting with the surprisingly sophisticated dining scene in the city of Pompeii, William Sitwell embarks on a romp through culinary history, meeting the characters and discovering the events that shape the way we eat today. The Daily Telegraph restaurant critic and famously acerbic MasterChef commentator, Sitwell discusses everything from the far-reaching influences of the Muslim world to the unintended consequences of the French Revolution. He reveals the full hideous glory of Britain’s post-WWII dining scene and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the counterculture of 1960’s America. This is a story of human ingenuity as individuals endeavor to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need, and decadent pleasure. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts and colorful episodes; an accessible and humorous history of a truly universal subject.
The Restaurant
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Author : Pamela M. Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Piping Plover Press
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The Restaurant written by Pamela M. Kelley and has been published by Piping Plover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Three sisters. An inherited Nantucket restaurant. One year before they can sell. Jill lives a glamorous life in Manhattan as a co-owner of a successful executive search firm. Never married, she is in her mid-thirties and lives in a stunning, corner condo with breathtaking views of the city and Hudson river. Everyone thinks there's something going on with her partner, Billy, because as a workaholic, she spends more time with him than anyone else. There never has been, but Jill is starting to wonder if there could be. Emma lives in Arizona and is an elementary school teacher and an aspiring photographer. She met her college professor husband, Peter, in grad school and they've been married for fifteen years. In recent years, she's noticed that Peter has grown distant. But when he shares a surprising secret, she doesn't see it coming and her world is turned upside down. Mandy has two children and is married to her college sweetheart, Cory, who runs a wildly successful hedge fund from Nantucket. Now that the children are older, Mandy has more free time and is eager to do more than just volunteer with local charity events. But Cory doesn't want her to work. He thinks it doesn't reflect well on him and appearances are everything to Cory. Though when Mandy finds something unusual in his gym bag, she begins to question what is really going on. The girls are stunned when they learn about the restaurant, Mimi's Place and the condition their grandmother added to the will, leaving the restaurant equally to Mandy, Emma, and Jill--and also to Paul, the chef for the past twelve years, and Emma’s first love.
The Restaurant
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Author : William Ronald Sacheverell Sitwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Restaurant written by William Ronald Sacheverell Sitwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Restaurants categories.
"Have you ever wondered where the first coffee shop sprung up, or when the sushi conveyor belt was invented? Unbelievably, the global history of the dining establishment has never been told--until now. Journeying 2,000 years into the past, acclaimed food critic and writer William Sitwell artfully traces the earliest origins of the widespread cultural practice of eating out, from its most basic to most sophisticated forms. Whether he's traversing the inns and taverns of Pompeii before its destruction in A.D. 79, witnessing the tumultuous emergence of fine dining during the French Revolution, or recounting the mid-twentieth-century invention of the taco machine in New York City, Sitwell's engaging prose gives readers a front-row seat to the restaurant experience across cultures and millennia. He identifies the ten most influential restaurant dishes of all time and follows the fashions that shape the way we dine, meeting the restaurateurs of today and yesterday whose establishments shaped society for good or ill. And after offering a wry history of the world through the prism of the eatery, he ponders its exciting future. Chefs, critics, restauranteurs, and foodies alike will delight in all the sweet and savory details offered up in this lively and highly absorbing romp through social and culinary history, packed with color photographs and illustrations."--Amazon.com
In The Restaurant
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Author : Christoph Ribbat
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2017-09-28
In The Restaurant written by Christoph Ribbat and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with Travel categories.
What does eating out tell us about who we are? The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories. This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafés and humble fast food joints. Here are tales of cooks who spend hours arranging rose petals for Michelin stars, of the university that teaches the consistence of the perfect shake, of the lunch counter that sparked a protest movement, of the writers - from Proust to George Orwell - who have been inspired or outraged by the restaurant's secrets. As this dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening book shows, the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together. Through its windows, we can glimpse the world. Christoph Ribbat (b. 1968) has taught in Bochum, Boston and Basel, and is now Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn.
The Restaurant
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Author : William Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-04-09
The Restaurant written by William Sitwell and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with History categories.
AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for the Daily Telegraph and famous for his acerbic criticisms on the hit BBC show MasterChef, tackles this enormous subject with his typical wit and precision. He spies influences from an ancient traveller of the Muslim world, revels in the unintended consequences for nascent fine dining of the French Revolution, reveals in full hideous glory the post-Second World War dining scene in the UK and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the US counterculture of the 1960s. This is a story of the ingenuity of the human race as individuals endeavour to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need and decadent pleasure. Sitwell, a familiar face in the UK and a figure known for the controversy he attracts, provides anyone who loves to dine out, or who loves history, or who simply loves a good read with an accessible and humorous history. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts; a book to read eagerly from start to finish or to spend glorious moments dipping in to. It may be William Sitwell’s History of Eating Out, but it’s also the definitive story of one of the cornerstones of our culture.
The Restaurants Book
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Author : David Beriss
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Restaurants Book written by David Beriss and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world? Restaurants are framed by the logic of the market, but promise experiences not of the market. Restaurants are key sites for practices of social distinction, where chefs struggle for recognition as stars and patrons insist on seeing and being seen. Restaurants define urban landscapes, reflecting and shaping the character of neighborhoods, or standing for the ethos of an entire city or nation. Whether they spread authoritarian French organizational models or the bland standardization of American fast food, restaurants have been accused of contributing to the homogenization of cultures. Yet restaurants have also played a central role in the reassertion of the local, as powerful cultural brokers and symbols for protests against a globalized food system. The Restaurants Book brings together anthropological insights into these thoroughly postmodern places.
The Restaurant
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Author : Donald E. Lundberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Restaurant written by Donald E. Lundberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Restaurants categories.
The Restaurant Reviewer
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Author : Nao Hauser
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-05
The Restaurant Reviewer written by Nao Hauser and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with categories.
The Restaurant Reviewer, a love story Originally published on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The Restaurant Reviewer, a novel, tells a story of lovers, loss, grieving, and healing, and is dedicated to the People of New York City. Set in lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, The Restaurant Reviewer focuses on an old family-owned restaurant, Booths, whose devoted chef and proprietor, Matthias Constantine, has collapsed from a stroke. The novel addresses the question facing his family and friends of whether, and how, his restaurant can survive. The answers explore connections to place, memory, and the passage of time. The story is narrated by Shaylie Drinan, a restaurant reviewer for a major newspaper, who finds herself drawn inexorably into the conflict at Booths through her lover, Damian Constantine, Matthias's son. The resolution she brings to the story affirms the goodness of food, the meaning of love. Matthias Constantine has spent his life preparing and refining the fare at his restaurant, a steakhouse on the Bowery that was founded by his immigrant grandfather and is now a clubhouse for City Hall politicians. His only help in the kitchen, and his avid protege, is Armand Fenner, who was abandoned to the streets as a child and rescued by Matthias. Years before Matthias collapsed his wife died in a car crash in front of the restaurant. His son, Damian, witnessed the scene of his mother's death and took off for the West Coast as soon as he could to get away from the memory. He returned a dozen years later to try to leverage the restaurant's real estate into lucrative investments for himself. In this plan he enlisted Tally Lee, a powerful politician who first came to Booths as a teenager to work as a waitress, befriended a City Council candidate and bore his daughter, and subsequently rose in Manhattan politics to become a Party boss. The effects of the stroke leave Matthias Constantine weakened but create the conditions for his restaurant's renewal. The catalyst for its future is the manager Damian hires to assist his father, a disillusioned doctor who wants to switch careers and hopes to take over Booths one day. The doctor, trying to enhance the restaurant's image and increase its business, unwittingly turns it into the venue that fosters romance between Matthias's protege, Fenner, and Tally Lee's beloved daughter, Benita, a talented singer. By creating beautiful dishes to please Benita, Fenner brings the restaurant to new heights-and threatens those who would destroy and forget it. The Restaurant Reviewer weaves the fears, conflicts, hopes and ambitions of its characters into an exploration of what endures in the wake of loss."
Kitchen Con
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Author : Trevor White
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Kitchen Con written by Trevor White and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The difference between Gordon Ramsay and a talking pig is that Gordon Ramsay never shuts up.. OCoFrom Kitchen Con. Our consumer culture canOCOt help but get wrapped up in designer crazesOCo these days our collective attention is focused on the designer food frenzy. Chefs are our newest celebrities and their restaurants are their stages, but hidden behind the elegant fa ade of fine dining exists the stark and sometimes shocking reality of the food industry. Renowned food critic Trevor White exposes what goes on behind the scenes in the high-stakes world of the restaurateur. Diners, be forewarned: this biting critique of restaurant culture shows todayOCOs most celebrated restaurants for what they really are: greedy, ostentatious businesses solely dedicated to the fame of their owners. Kitchen Con pays tribute to the history of dining out, starting with the first restaurants and moving on to the most fashionable and well-known kitchens in New York, Paris and London. Witty, humourous and polished, White takes his reader on a whirlwind trip through the restaurant racket, sparing no one!