Turning the tables : restaurants and the rise of the American middle class, 1880-1920 / Andrew P. Haley.

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 disquises: the decline of French cuisine -- Indifferent gullets: the middle class and the cosmopolitan restaurant.

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Haley examines the transformation of American public dining at the start of the twentieth century and argues that the birth of the modern American restaurant helped establish the middle class as the arbiter of American culture.

English.

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