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Repast
Lesy, Michael; Stoffer, Lisa
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Description for Repast
Hardcover. What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America's first real food revolution, 1900-1910. Num Pages: 264 pages, 67 color plates, 21 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 922.
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, Repast takes readers on a culinary tour of early-twentieth-century restaurants and dining. The innovations introduced at the time—in ingredients, technologies, meal service, and cuisine—transformed the act of eating in public in ... Read more
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, Repast takes readers on a culinary tour of early-twentieth-century restaurants and dining. The innovations introduced at the time—in ingredients, technologies, meal service, and cuisine—transformed the act of eating in public in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393070675
SKU
V9780393070675
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About Lesy, Michael; Stoffer, Lisa
Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel’s World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College. Lisa Stoffer is Amherst College’s director of foundation and corporate relations and comes from a family of chefs. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Repast
"[A] kaleidoscopic mix of contemporary news stories, research, and gorgeous reproductions of menus from the era, festooned with illustrations of everything from bluebirds to rakish swimmers."
Melanie Rehak "Concentrating on those [menus] from the fateful decade between 1900 and 1910, he and Stoffer, his co-author and wife, discover tales of class, gender and race, industrialization and progressivism, immigration and ... Read more
Melanie Rehak "Concentrating on those [menus] from the fateful decade between 1900 and 1910, he and Stoffer, his co-author and wife, discover tales of class, gender and race, industrialization and progressivism, immigration and ... Read more