Ten restaurants that changed America / Paul Freedman ; introduction by Danny Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Paul, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restaurants--United States--History.

Restaurants.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 527 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

10 restaurants that changed America

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Summary:

Freedman 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 or evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, he uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation.

Contents:

Ten restaurants and American cuisine

Delmonico's : America's first restaurant

Antoine's : haute creole

Schrafft's : seeking out the female customer

Howard Johnson's : as American as fried clams

Mamma Leone's : Italian entertainment

The Mandarin : "the best Chinese food east of the Pacific"

Sylvia's : the soul of Harlem

Le Pavillon : midcentury French

Four Seasons : the epitome of modern

Chez Panisse : "the way we eat now"

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780871406804

0871406802

OCLC:

937452608