In The Restaurant: Society In Four Courses
by Christoph Ribbat /
2018 / English / PDF, EPUB
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The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from
eighteenth-century Paris to El Bulli
The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from
eighteenth-century Paris to El Bulli
What does eating out tell us about who we are? The restaurant is
where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to see and be
seen - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples
of gastronomy hide countless stories.
What does eating out tell us about who we are? The restaurant is
where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to see and be
seen - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples
of gastronomy hide countless stories.
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.
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.
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.
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.