Kitchens The Culture of Restaurant Work

Name: Kitchens The Culture of Restaurant Work
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ISBN: 9780520200784

ISBN-10: 0520200780

ISBN-13: 9780520200784

Edition: 1996

Authors: Gary Alan Fine

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Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. He provides a riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture. Working conditions, time constraints, market forces, and aesthetic goals all figure into the food served to customers--who often don't know quite what they're getting. The kitchen is a place of constant compromise, of quirks, approximations, dirty tricks, surprises, and short cuts, as Fine demonstrates in…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Living the Kitchen Life



Cooks' Time: Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work



The Kitchen as Place and Space



The Commonwealth of Cuisine



The Economical Cook: Organization as Business



Aesthetic Constraints



The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse



The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life


Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen: Issues and Cases


Notes


References


Index