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Dishing it Out
Robert Appelbaum
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Description for Dishing it Out
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In this ground-breaking work, Robert Appelbaum travels through time, space and the annals of literature and history, asking some basic questions. What is a restaurant, for example, and what and who is it for? Originating in pre-Revolutionary France but now widespread throughout the developed world, the restaurant has always been the locus of contradictory emotions. While the restaurant encourages conviviality, cosmopolitanism and generosity, it also fosters inequality, alienation and bad faith. The restaurant stands for a kind of liberation: the embrace of pleasure for the sake of pleasure and sociability for its own sake. But it also encourages narcissistic consumerism, ... Read more
In this ground-breaking work, Robert Appelbaum travels through time, space and the annals of literature and history, asking some basic questions. What is a restaurant, for example, and what and who is it for? Originating in pre-Revolutionary France but now widespread throughout the developed world, the restaurant has always been the locus of contradictory emotions. While the restaurant encourages conviviality, cosmopolitanism and generosity, it also fosters inequality, alienation and bad faith. The restaurant stands for a kind of liberation: the embrace of pleasure for the sake of pleasure and sociability for its own sake. But it also encourages narcissistic consumerism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898074
SKU
V9781861898074
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99-15
About Robert Appelbaum
Robert Appelbaum is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. He is the author of the award-winning Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture and Food Among the Early Moderns (2006).
Reviews for Dishing it Out
'Appelbaum, it becomes apparent, loves to eat out, and has a fun and self-deprecating writing style when recounting his experiences ... This absorbing book is sure to inform your next visit to a restaurant.' - Scotland on Sunday 'a serious examination of the restaurant but also a wildly funny and human romp through restaurant culture high and low ... Read more