America eats out : an illustrated history of restaurants, taverns, coffee shops, speakeasies, and other establishments that have fed us for 350 years / John Mariani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mariani, John F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restaurants--United States--History.

Restaurants.

Taverns (Inns)--United States--History.

Taverns (Inns).

United States.

Genre:

cookbooks.

Cookbooks.

History.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Morrow, ©1991.

Summary:

Discusses food service in colonial and revolutionary America, the advent of fine dining, eating out in the old west, conspicuous consumption in the late nineteenth century, foods introduced by immigrants, eating out during Prohibition, roadside restaurants in the 1920s and 1930s, rations and the restaurant renaissance in the 1940s, fast food, theme restaurants, counterculture cooking, regional and new American cuisine, the future of the restaurant in America, etc.

Contents:

Potluck

Setting the mold

What'll it be, stranger?

The age of gluttony

Stretching the sauce

Joe sent me

Out of state plates

Flaming swords and French dressing

Something for everyone

Eat and run

Googie, Mickey, and the twelve Caesars

You are where you eat

You are what you eat

Have it your way

America hurrah!

Will there be anything else?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Mariani, John F. America eats out.

ISBN:

0688099963

9780688099961

OCLC:

23180248