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'Brilliant. Just bloody brilliant' Giles Coren, The Times
'Fascinating, multi-layered, audacious and unique' Russell Norman, author of Polpo
The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories.
This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafés and humble fast food joints. Here are tales of cooks who spend hours arranging rose petals for Michelin stars, of the university that teaches the consistency of the perfect shake, of the lunch counter that sparked a protest movement, of the writers - from Proust to George Orwell - who have been inspired or outraged by the restaurant's secrets.
As this dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening book shows, the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together. Through its windows, we can glimpse the world.
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'Glorious stuff along the way... we are unquestionably gripped by the stories... Brilliant. Just bloody brilliant' -- The Times
'A playful story, most entertaining, and wonderfully documented, about the history and the anecdotes around restaurants' --Ferran Adria
'Fascinating, multi-layered, audacious and unique... mixes fact and fancy so compellingly that I read it in a single sitting' -- Russell Norman, author of Polpo
'Brilliantly impressionistic... A delightful celebration of the restaurant' -- Guardian
'All edible life is here - and tasty gossip as the lid is lifted on the bubbling cauldron that is culinary society' --Tatler
'A dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening volume that shows the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together... an impressively informative and unreservedly fascinating study' -- Midwest Book Review
'Compulsively readable... Christoph Ribbat's fascinating cultural history of restaurants transcends gastronomy to trace how this 250-year institution developed and its place in society' -- Shelf Awareness
'An entertaining smorgasbord of tasty stories that build into a deeper picture of the places where we eat, from fast food joints and cafés to the temples of gastronomy' -- Hattie Ellis
'A veritable smorgasbord of mouthwatering gastronomic tales... sure to delight everyone from the most knowledgeable foodie to those of us who struggle to boil an egg' --The National
About the Author
Christoph Ribbat (b. 1968) has held teaching and research positions in Bochum, Boston and Basel, and is now Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn.
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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1782273115
- ISBN 13 9781782273110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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