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The Invention of the Restaurant : Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, With a New Preface /

As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as "restaurateurs' rooms" to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Spang, Rebecca L. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gopnik, Adam (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition
  • Introduction: To Make a Restaurant
  • 1. The Friend of All the World
  • 2. The Nouvelle Cuisine of Rousseauian Sensibility
  • 3. Private Appetites in a Public Space
  • 4. Morality, Equality, Hospitality!
  • 5. Fixed Prices: Gluttony and the French Revolution
  • 6. From Gastromania to Gastronomy
  • 7. Putting Paris on the Menu
  • 8. Hiding in Restaurants
  • Epilogue: Restaurants and Reverie
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index