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The Invention of the Restaurant (2nd Edition)

Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture

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The Invention of the Restaurant (2nd Edition)

Written by: Rebecca L. Spang, Adam Gopnik - foreword
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee
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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—bout 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.

©2000 the President and Fellows of Harvard College; Foreword and Preface copyright 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College (P)2023 Tantor
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