Smart casual
Subtitle: the transformation of gourmet restaurant style in America
By: Alison Pearlman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780226651408; 9780226154848
Subjects: Gastronomy; History; Restaurants
Description: Explores the evolution of gourmet restaurant style in recent decades, which has led to an increasing informality in restaurant design, and examines what these changes say about current attitudes toward taste.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: When fine dining met casual dining; title: New shapers of trends and taste; title: Exhibition kitchens and the theater of manual labor; title: Gourmet plays on common food faves.