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Book

Ten restaurants that changed America

Call Number

  • 647.95 F8537 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Physical Description

xlvi, 527 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Ten restaurants and American cuisine
  • Delmonico's : America's first restgaurant
  • 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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