Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
In the sumptuousRepast, Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer refer to [the] midday malaise as 'the problem of lunch.' Their book makes clear [...] that soul-crushingly bad noon-time meals have been a long-standing feature of the American workday. That they manage to make discussions of awful meals both charming and interesting is in no small part due toRepast's kaleidoscopic mix of contemporary news stories, research and gorgeous reproductions of menus from the era. —Melanie Rehak