Ten Restaurants That Changed America
Paul Freedman
Combining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Freedman also treats us to a scintillating history of the then-revolutionary Schrafft’s, a chain of convivial lunch spots that catered to women, and that bygone favorite, Howard Johnson’s, which pioneered midcentury, on-the-road dining, only to be swept aside by McDonald's. Lavishly designed with more than 100 photographs and images, including original menus, Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining social history.
- Author
- Paul Freedman
- Contributors
- Danny Meyer (Introduction)
- Edition published
- September 20, 2016
- Publication year
- 2016
- Goodreads rating
- 3.78/5 from 1,446 ratings and 209 reviews
- Purchased
- March 12, 2017 · kindle
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- Kindle Edition · 560 pages
- Language
- English
- Genres
- Food, Nonfiction, History, Food History, Audiobook, American History, Business, Food Writing, Food and Drink, Cooking
- ISBN
- 9780871406804
- Added
- March 12, 2017
- Times read
- 1
- Owned copies
- 1
- Goodreads
- Book record
- Canonical URL
- /books/ten-restaurants-that-changed-america-ad6d082d