Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

by Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer

Book Overview

Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to France's cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, before Wolfgang Puck added Asian flavors to classical dishes and caviar to pizza, the restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of the early twentieth century were changing the way America ate. Beginning with the simplest eateries and foods and culminating with the emergence of a genuinely American way of fine dining,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393070670
• ISBN13: 9780393070675
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.3"