Turning the Tables Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920 / Andrew P. Haley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haley, Andrew P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--United States--History--20th century.

Consumption (Economics).

Middle class--United States--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Restaurants--United States--History--20th century.

Restaurants.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the twentieth century, even the best restaurants dished up ethnic and American foods to middle-class urbanites spending a night on the town. In Turning the Tables, Andrew Haley examines the transformation of American public dining at the start of the twentieth century and argues that the birth of the modern American restaurant helped establish the middle class as the arbiter of American culture. Early twentieth-century battles over French-language menus, scien

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON LANGUAGE; INTRODUCTION: The Tang and Feel of the American Experience: Class, Culture, and Consumption; CHAPTER ONE: Terrapin à la Maryland: The Era of the Aristocratic Restaurant; CHAPTER TWO: Playing at Make Believe: The Failure of Imitation; CHAPTER THREE: Catering to the Great Middle Stripe: Beefsteaks and American Restaurants; CHAPTER FOUR: The Restauration: Colonizing the Ethnic Restaurant; CHAPTE FIVE: The Simplified Menu: The Case against Gastronomic Ostentation; CHAPTER SIX: Satisfying Their Hunger: Middle-Class Women and Respectability

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Tipping Evil: The Limits of Middle-Class InfluenceCHAPTER EIGHT: Ending Linguistic Disguises: The Decline of French Cuisine; CONCLUSION: Indifferent Gullets: The Middle Class and the Cosmopolitan Restaurant; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-351) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-419-3

979-88-908850-8-1

1-4696-0314-4

0-8078-7792-1

OCLC:

729253195