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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 April 2025
- ISBN 9781032994857
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Mapping out the development of the great American restaurant, the author takes us on a nostalgic journey in From Boarding House to Bistro (originally published in 1990) through the history of a nation?s eating houses.
MoreLong description:
The quest for food to fill the body, and food to seduce the soul, has provided a catalyst for the exploding variety of restaurants in the United States. Mapping out the development of the great American restaurant, the author takes us on a nostalgic journey in From Boarding House to Bistro (originally published in 1990) through the history of a nation?s eating houses.
From the earliest taverns and inns to the fast-food chains of 1990s, the restaurant mirrored a changing way of life. Increasingly Americans chose to eat away from home, in a variety of downtown establishments, or in the burgeoning sprawl of suburban eateries. Richard Pillsbury traces this evolution, emphasizing how the restaurant?s form, its fare, and its location reflect the country?s diverse economy and social life.
Abundantly illustrated, and with entertaining vignettes on individual eating places, this fascinating account is accessible to all readers. The unique product of extensive travel across the continent, this book gives new insight into the restaurant as an institution and will especially appeal to those interested in the social and behavioral sciences, urban planners, marketing specialists, and others working with the changing American urban scene.
Review of the first publication:
??the author offers an intriguing case study of a modern American ritual, studded with insights gleaned from years of accumulated fieldwork along the arduous culinary trail.?
-- Michael P. Conzen, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 83, No. 3
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction 1. Taverns and boarding house rows 2. Street vendors to diners 3. Castles and queens 4. America transformed 5. Sprouts and baked beans 6. Cornucopia becomes smorgasbord 7. The patchwork quilt 8. ?Parts is parts? 9. Feeding the soul: some last thoughts
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