Repast Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

Name: Repast Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
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ISBN: 9780393070675

ISBN-10: 0393070670

ISBN-13: 9780393070675

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Lesy, Lisa Stoffer

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Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to France’s cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, before Wolfgang Puck added Asian flavors to classical dishes and caviar to pizza, the restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century were changing the way America ate. Beginning with the simplest eateries and foods and culminating with the emergence of a genuinely American way of fine dining, Repast takes readers on a culinary tour of early-twentieth-century restaurants and dining. The innovations introduced at the time—in ingredients, technologies, meal service, and cuisine—transformed the act of eating in public in ways that…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 0.79" wide x 0.96" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English

Michael Lesy 's books include Angel's World and Long Time Coming . In 2006 he was named one of the first United States Artists Fellowship recipients, and in 2013 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College; he lives in Massachusetts.



Introduction



Pure Food



Quick Food



Her Food



Other People's Food



Splendid Food


Afterword: Dining In at the Dawn of the New American Century


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index