Dining out
Subtitle: a history of the restaurant in New Zealand
By: Perrin Rowland
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781869404642
Subjects: Dinners and dining; History; Restaurants
Other titles: History of the restaurant in New Zealand
Description: This book introduces us to the history of the New Zealand restaurant from the 1860s to the present. Drawing on menus, memories, photographs and newspapers, Perrin Rowland tells the story of New Zealand's first nineteenth-century restaurants; luxury in the golden age; licensing and the Depression years; World War II and the Americans; post-war dining and the six o'clock swill; the rise of ethnic restaurants; and our contemporary explosion of flavours.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.