num_pages: 400
description: Journeying 2000 years into the past food critic and writer William Sitwell artfully traces the earliest origins of the widespread cultural practice of eating out from its most basic to most sophisticated forms. Whether he's traversing the inns and taverns of Pompeii before its destruction in A.D. 79 witnessing the tumultuous emergence of fine dining during the French Revolution or recounting the mid-twentieth-century invention of the taco machine in New York City Sitwell's gives readers a front-row seat to the restaurant experience across cultures and millennia. He identifies the ten most influential restaurant dishes of all time and follows the fashions that shape the way we dine meeting the restaurateurs of today and yesterday whose establishments shaped society for good or ill. And after offering a wry history of the world through the prism of the eatery he ponders its exciting future.
language: English
title: The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out
publisher: Simon  Schuster UK