Ten restaurants that changed America
By: Paul Freedman ; introduction by Danny Meyer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780871406804
Subjects: Restaurants; History
Description: Freedman reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco's fabled The Mandarin or evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, he uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ten restaurants and American cuisine; title: Delmonico's : America's first restaurant; title: Antoine's : haute creole; title: Schrafft's : seeking out the female customer; title: Howard Johnson's : as American as fried clams; title: Mamma Leone's : Italian entertainment; title: The Mandarin : "the best Chinese food east of the Pacific"; title: Sylvia's : the soul of Harlem; title: Le Pavillon : midcentury French; title: Four Seasons : the epitome of modern; title: Chez Panisse : "the way we eat now"; title: Epilogue.