num_pages: 304
description: Over the years Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture including restaurants and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O Connell in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinary trends in Boston restaurants presents a rich and hitherto unexplored side to the city's past. Dining Out in Boston shows that the city was a pioneer in elaborate hotel dining oyster houses French cuisine student hangouts ice cream parlors the twentieth-century revival of traditional New England dishes and contemporary locavore and trendy foodie culture. In these stories of the most-beloved Boston restaurants of yesterday and todayillustrated with an extensive collection of historic menus postcards and photosO'Connell reveals a unique history sure to whet the intellectual and nostalgic appetite of Bostonians and restaurant-goers the world over.
language: None
title: Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History
publisher: University Press of New England