restaurants and the rise of the American middle class, 1880-1920 /
Andrew P. Haley
xiv, 356 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-351) and index
The tang and feel of the American experience: class, culture, and consumption -- Terrapin a la Maryland: the era of the aristocratic restaurant -- Playing at make believe: the failure of imitation -- Catering to the great middle stripe: beefsteaks and American restaurants -- The restauration: colonizing the ethnic restaurant -- The simplified menu: the case against gastronomic ostentation -- Satisfying their hunger: middle-class women and respectability -- The tipping evil: the limits of middle-class influence -- Ending linguistic disguises: the decline of French cuisine -- Indifferent gullets: the middle class and the cosmopolitan restaurant
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Restaurants and the rise of the American middle class, 1880-1920
Consumption (Economics)-- United States-- History-- 20th century
Middle class-- United States-- History-- 20th century
Restaurants-- United States-- History-- 20th century