Ten restaurants that changed America

Freedman 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 The Mandarin or evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, he uses each restaur...

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Main Author: Freedman, Paul, 1949- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Ten restaurants and American cuisine -- Delmonico's : America's first restaurant -- Antoine's : haute creole -- Schrafft's : seeking out the female customer -- Howard Johnson's : as American as fried clams -- Mamma Leone's : Italian entertainment -- The Mandarin : "the best Chinese food east of the Pacific" -- Sylvia's : the soul of Harlem -- Le Pavillon : midcentury French -- Four Seasons : the epitome of modern -- Chez Panisse : "the way we eat now" -- Epilogue. 
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