The Invention of the Restaurant

Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, with a New Preface
2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-674-24177-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: Harvard Historical Studies

Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “Witty and full of fascinating details.” —Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste—about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. “An ambitious, thought-changing book…Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant.” —New York Times “A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed…Spang is…as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish.” —The Times

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spang, Rebecca L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gopnik, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Spang, Rebecca L.
Rebecca L. Spang is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of <i>Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution</i> (Harvard).

Gopnik, Adam
Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at the <i>New Yorker</i> and the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of ten books, including, most recently, <i>The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery</i>. A Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur, Gopnik has won three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.