Delmonico's; a Century of Splendor
Author : Lately Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Restaurants
ISBN :
Author : Lately Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Restaurants
ISBN :
Author : Paul Freedman
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1631492462
Finalist for the IACP Cookbook Award A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A Smithsonian Best Food Book of the Year Longlisted for the Art of Eating Prize Featuring a new chapter on ten restaurants changing America today, a “fascinating . . . sweep through centuries of food culture” (Washington Post). Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled Mandarin; evoking the poignant nostalgia of Howard Johnson’s, the beloved roadside chain that foreshadowed the pandemic of McDonald’s; or chronicling the convivial lunchtime crowd at Schrafft’s, the first dining establishment to cater to women’s tastes, Freedman uses each restaurant to reveal a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. “As much about the contradictions and contrasts in this country as it is about its places to eat” (The New Yorker), Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a “must-read” (Eater) that proves “essential for anyone who cares about where they go to dinner” (Wall Street Journal Magazine).
Author : Andrew F. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0231140932
Offers an account of an eating history in America which focuses on a variety of topics, ingredients, and cooking styles.
Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812967410
In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.
Author : Richard Hosking
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1903018439
The 2004 Symposium on Wild Food: Hunters and Gatherers received a large number of excellent papers.
Author :
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0807834742
Turning the Tables
Author : Jane Grigson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780803259713
Cooking reference book that contains recipes and inspiration for the experienced cooks as well as beginners.
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105155
Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Author : John Tauranac
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493030485
Discover the whos, the whats, the whys and hows of social history that make the city come alive. A sarcophagus sits in a public park Stones from the dungeon that imprisoned Joan of Arc support a statue of her A Star of David adorns a Baptist church A fire-breathing salamander decorates a firehouse A stained-glass window relates an architect’s frustrations These are the details that guidebooks usually ignore and passersby ordinarily overlook. Curious readers will delight in revelations of history hidden in plain sight, alongside stunning photography of Manhattan’s overlooked treasures.
Author : Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801898277
A biography of the “influential and engaging character” who courted Congress with food, wine, and gifts in the post-Civil War era (The Washington Post Book World). King of the Lobby tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine, and good conversation to become the most influential lobbyist of the Gilded Age. Scion of an old and honorable family, best friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and charming man-about-town, Sam Ward held his own in an era crowded with larger-than-life personalities. Living by the motto that the shortest route between a pending bill and a congressman’s “aye” was through his stomach, Ward elegantly entertained political elites in return for their votes. At a time when waves of scandal washed over Washington, the popular press railed against the wickedness of the lobby, and self-righteous politicians predicted that special interests would cause the downfall of democratic government, Sam Ward still reigned supreme. By the early 1870s, he had earned the title “King of the Lobby,” cultivating an extraordinary network of prominent figures and a style that survives today in the form of expensive golf outings, extravagant dinners, and luxurious vacations. Kathryn Allamong Jacob’s account shows how the king earned his crown, and how this son of wealth and privilege helped to create a questionable profession in a city that then, as now, rested on power and influence. “Her extensive research is reflected in her recounting of Ward’s life, successfully putting it into the context of the history of lobbying...will appeal to American history buffs.” —Publishers Weekly