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Repast: dining out at the dawn of the new American century, 1900-1910

By Lisa , Lesy , Michael;Stoffer

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2013
ISBN
9780393070675, 0393070670
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
22 MB (23155227 bytes)
Edition
First Norton edition
Pages
257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Dinners and dining--United States--History--20th c

Description

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 persist to this day. Illustrated with photographs from the time as well as color plates reproducing menus from the New York Public Library's Buttolph Menu Collection.;Pure food -- Quick food -- Her food -- Other peoples' food -- Splendid food.

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