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Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize


"Witty and full of fascinating details."
-Los Angeles Times


Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today.

This is a book about the French revolution in taste-about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne.

"An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories."
-Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

"[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant."
-New York Times

"A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish."
-The Times

Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize
Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize


"Witty and full of fascinating details."
-Los Angeles Times


Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today.

This is a book about the French revolution in taste-about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne.

"An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories."
-Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

"[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant."
-New York Times

"A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish."
-The Times

Über den Autor
Rebecca L. Spang
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Harvard Historical Studies
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780674241770
ISBN-10: 0674241770
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Spang, Rebecca L.
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Harvard Historical Studies
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 211 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca L. Spang
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,316 kg
Artikel-ID: 117845301

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