Repast
Subtitle: dining out at the dawn of the new American century, 1900-1910
By: Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer
Contributors: Stoffer, Lisa, author
Edition: First Norton edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780393070675
Subjects: Gastronomy; History; Dinners and dining; Restaurants
Description: Beginning with the simplest eateries and foods and culminating with the emergence of a genuinely American way of fine dining, Repast takes readers on a culinary tour of early-twentieth-century restaurants and dining. The innovations introduced at the time--in ingredients, technologies, meal service, and cuisine--transformed the act of eating in public in ways that persist to this day. Illustrated with photographs from the time as well as color plates reproducing menus from the New York Public Library's Buttolph Menu Collection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pure food; title: Quick food; title: Her food; title: Other peoples' food; title: Splendid food.