[PDF.84ja] The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)

The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)

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 | #385545 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2001-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.53 x.88 x6.29l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Well-researched, informative and entertaining|By Diana Wilder|I purchased this book (and some others) as sourcebooks for some stories set in pre-Napoleon III Paris. The action does involve meals taken at restaurants, and while I was aware that the sidewalk café was a fairly recent invention, and it would be highly unlikely that the party that set out to dine at a restaur|From Booklist|Public eateries are so ubiquitous it may not occur to most of us that the restaurant has a unique history, intimately tied to debates about aristocracy and democracy, public affairs, and private life

Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating to be an enjoyable leisure activity or even a serious pastime? To find the answer to these questions, we must accompany Rebecca Spang back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a thing to eat: a quasi-medicinal bouillon that formed an essential element of prerevolutionary France's nouvelle cuisine. This is a book about the French Revolution in taste and of t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)   |  Rebecca L. Spang. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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