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Format: Paperback
 ISBN-10: 0142000310
 ISBN-13: 9780142000311
 Mar 2002
 Publisher: Penguin Group USA
 Reissue
 Language: English |
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Condition: Very Good Seller's Comments: Snooty waiters, seating by social pedigree, and food copied from the classical French canon--these facts of restaurant life are mostly gone from our modern dining scene. But how did this status-based system, typical of the postwar period, mutate into today's uniquely American fine-dining "experience"--a populist stew of New Californian, ethnic, and domesticated French and Italian cooking? Patric Kuh's The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: America's Culinary Revolution tells all, deftly and w
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