From stagecoach stops to sushi bars, America Eats Out traces how the entrepreurial spirit of you-gotta-have-a-gimmick has been the driving force behind the restaurant business since hungry hordes first set foot on these shores. 200 black-and-white photographs.
Author(s): John F. Mariani
Edition: First
Publisher: William Morrow and Company
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 294
City: New York City
Tags: History Dining
ISBN 0-688-09996-3......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Chapter 1 Potluck - Food Service in Colonial and Revolutionary America......Page 18
Chapter 2 Setting the Mold - Fine Dining Comes to America......Page 26
Chapter 3 What'II It Be, Stranger? - Eating Out in the West......Page 38
Chapter 4 The Age of Gluttony - Conspicuous Consumption in the Late Nineteenth Century......Page 52
Chapter 5 Stretching the Sauce - Immigrants Enrich the Broth......Page 64
Chapter 6 Joe Sent Me - Eating Out During the Noble Experiment......Page 92
Chapter 7 Out of State Plates - Roadside Restaurants in the 1920s and 1930s......Page 108
Chapter 8 Flaming Swords and French Dressing - The Return of Deluxe Dining in the 1930s......Page 136
Chapter 9 Something for Everyone - Rations and the Restaurant Renaissance in the 1940s......Page 158
Chapter 10 Eat and Run - Fast Food in America......Page 166
Chapter 11 Googie, Mickey, and the Twelve Caesars - New Looks,. New Themes in the 1950s......Page 182
Chapter 12 You Are Where You Eat - Where Everyone-But Not Anyone-Was Welcome......Page 200
Chapter 13 You Are What You Eat - The Counterculture Cooks Up a Storm......Page 214
Chapter 14 Have It Your Way - Eating Out in the "Me " Decade......Page 226
Chapter 15 America Hurrah! - The Rise of Regional and New American Cuisine......Page 242
Chapter 16 Will There Be Anything Else? The Future of the Restaurant in America......Page 256
Bibliography......Page 272
Acknowledgments......Page 274
Index......Page 276
