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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780871406804
- Book Title
- Ten Restaurants That Changed America
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Travel, Cooking
- Topic
- Individual Chefs & Restaurants, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, History, Essays & Narratives
- Item Weight
- 46.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871406802
ISBN-13
9780871406804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219813793
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ten Restaurants That Changed America
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Chefs & Restaurants, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, History, Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Cooking
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
46.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-029340
Reviews
Pleasure without snobbery: Paul Freedman's book is itself exactly what the very best American food has always been., Spanning over 100 years, Paul Freedman's engrossing and well-researched exploration of the restaurant as an American institution presents us with a gallery of unforgettable characters, iconic dishes, and unique places. Immigrants, entrepreneurs, chefs, and impresarios all loom large in a narrative that accurately tracks the historical changes in how we eat in public., Boss is a poet to watch, likely to prove one of the leading voices of the next decade. Readers may be drawn into this collection for the poems that touch on disaster and divorce, but they'll stay for the memorable verses on nature and memory., The most important and entertaining book on the subject of food that I've read in years! Paul Freedman paints a portrait of a culture whose cuisine is only beginning to emerge. Witty, sensitive, surprisingly sensuous--more, please!, Fascinating. . . . In his sweep through centuries of food culture, Freedman illuminates much more than what happened in the front or back of the house of these 10 distinct places (although he does plenty of that). He effectively makes the case that the story of America's restaurants is one of changing immigration patterns, race relations, gender and family roles, work obligations, and leisure habits. . . . [Freedman's] insights are shrewd and demonstrate the power of historical study in understanding the world., Impeccable . . . . Inevitably, a book like this will induce a feast of delicious nostalgia in most readers, a longing for all those good -- and even some not so good -- menus and dishes past. But the culinary and cultural journey Mr. Freedman has taken us on demonstrates the abiding qualities in our society -- its openness to new sources and sourcing, its diversity, its restlessness with the same old thing, its capacity for reinvention and assimilation -- all of which bode well for the future of America's restaurants and its cuisine., Reading Paul Freedman about America, stalking myself through the taste of meals at eight of his ten restaurants, each sampled for different reasons at different moments in my life, I began to draw the outlines of a world I shared with other people, people more or less like me, and to wonder what 'like me' meant when it came to expectations of inclusion, of common flash points of reference, of understanding and participating in the coded language of what we eat and how it is prepared and who is sitting at all those tables around us. I think that's what Freedman intended us to do. . . . Ten Restaurants is a book as much about the contradictions and contrasts in this country as it is about its places to eat. It is designed to keep you up, thinking, and, as I did this summer, returning to its rich, and often troubling, pages., Fascinating....Mr. Freedman's book suggests that it's not ultimately restaurants that change America--it's the people in the kitchen., Bookended with poems about what persists and what crumbles . . . Boss's poems have a distinct--and satisfying--rhythm. , 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., A robust historical trek through America's restaurant cuisine over three centuries. . . . Delightfully illustrated with menus, photos, and other visual accompaniments, the narrative delves into each of the 10 restaurants' unique stories, beginning with America's first restaurant, Delmonico's . . . . Culinary historians, those besotted with food culture, and curious general readers will all find something of value in this well-researched, entertaining social and cultural history., It's deeply satisfying to be swept into the music that scores Todd Boss's third book, Tough Luck, to delight in the song of everyday speech refreshed and refined through sly rhyme. It is deeply transporting to be ferried across the river of his metaphors, to arrive at places logical yet magical. And it's deeply delightful to walk in the world of Boss's objects--a wall-mounted coffee grinder, an old farm sled, and unused Scrabble tiles 'sitting there in their tray like dumbstruck parishioners.' Tough Luck is funny and philosophical and wry and large-hearted, and it's our great good luck to have it., Paul Freedman, one of the world's most learned food writers, has focused his extraordinary scholarship on a deconstruction of American dining from the corner deli to Chez Panisse. If you enjoy a brown paper bag of fried clams as much as a fourteen-course tasting menu, and ever wondered how it all came to be a part of daily American life, this is the book for you. Ten Restaurants That Changed America is the most enlightening kind of history, as Freedman takes a fresh look at what we take for granted and reveals the extraordinary matrix of cultural and culinary currents that have made it all possible., [W]idely regarded as one of the best poets of his generation. . . . [Boss] us[es] brilliant wordplay and portray[s] the people and landscape of his childhood in Wisconsin with clarity and hard-edged grace.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
647.9573
Synopsis
Far more than simply a discussion of food, chefs and recipes, in Ten Restaurants That Changed America Paul Freedman creates a social history, examining how restaurants came to reflect class, gender, assimilation, mass consumption and culture in America.Ranging from the 1830s and the New York Steak House Delmonico's--which Freedman identifies as the first real American restaurant--to the current flowering of avant-garde cuisine, each chapter looks at fashions for different types of food from turtle soup to Caesar Salad. Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a must read for serious foodies., 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., From Delmonico's to Sylvia's to ChezPanisse, a daring and original historyof dining out in America as toldthrough ten legendary restaurants., Changed Americless 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 Soule 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."
LC Classification Number
TX909.F697 2016
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