The Invention of the Restaurant
Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)
by Rebecca L. Spang
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"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 the table - a book about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, thereby changing their own social life and that of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, with a New Preface
2020, Harvard University Press
in English
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Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
2019, Harvard University Press
in English
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The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)
November 30, 2001, Harvard University Press
Paperback
in English
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The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard Historical Studies)
March 30, 2000, Harvard University Press
Hardcover
in English
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