Download or read book Takeaway Heritage written by Stephen Silverwood and published by Refugee Radio. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the hidden heritage of refugees and migrants working in restaurants, cafes and takeaways. Through life stories and candid photography, it tells the untold history of migration and the evolution of integration from the overlooked regions of the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa. In the UK such humble establishments have been neglected by migration studies and overlooked by social historians, but they are they are unsung spaces of delicious food and of meaningful cultural interaction. The workers are stereotyped as unsophisticated but are often well educated and highly travelled, bringing with them culture, recipes and techniques from afar. Migrant heritage tells us something important about who we are as a multicultural society and how that society has been negotiated. In the UK there has been a long tradition of migrant integration through cuisine. This has been neglected by academic studies as too everyday but it contains a very telling fusion of international and local heritage. The main body of the book is a series of chapters each devoted to a different restaurant or takeaway. They allow the owners, managers, workers and customers to tell their stories through the story of their businesses. Each chapter is illustrated throughout with colourful photos of the restaurants and characterful portraits of the owners. At the end of the book is a series of essays exploring the deeper truths opened up in the interviews within the context of the wider social history.
Download or read book Dining Out written by Katie Rawson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and maître d’s, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venues for a range of human experiences. From banquets in twelfth-century China to the medicinal roots of French restaurants, the origins of restaurants are not singular—nor is the history this book tells. Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore highlight stories across time and place, including how chifa restaurants emerged from the migration of Chinese workers and their marriage to Peruvian businesswomen in nineteenth-century Peru; how Alexander Soyer transformed kitchen chemistry by popularizing the gas stove, pre-dating the pyrotechnics of molecular gastronomy by a century; and how Harvey Girls dispelled the ill repute of waiting tables, making rich lives for themselves across the American West. From restaurant architecture to technological developments, staffing and organization, tipping and waiting table, ethnic cuisines, and slow and fast foods, this delectably illustrated and profoundly informed and entertaining history takes us from the world’s first restaurants in Kaifeng, China, to the latest high-end dining experiences.
Download or read book Ten Restaurants That Changed America written by Paul Freedman and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a new chapter on ten restaurants changing America today, a “fascinating . . . sweep through centuries of food culture” (Washington Post). Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That Changed America 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 Mandarin; evoking the poignant nostalgia of Howard Johnson’s, the beloved roadside chain that foreshadowed the pandemic of McDonald’s; or chronicling the convivial lunchtime crowd at Schrafft’s, the first dining establishment to cater to women’s tastes, Freedman uses each restaurant to reveal a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. “As much about the contradictions and contrasts in this country as it is about its places to eat” (The New Yorker), Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a “must-read” (Eater) that proves “essential for anyone who cares about where they go to dinner” (Wall Street Journal Magazine).
Download or read book The Restaurant written by William Sitwell and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed food critic’s two-thousand-year history of going out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Starting with the surprisingly sophisticated dining scene in the city of Pompeii, William Sitwell embarks on a romp through culinary history, meeting the characters and discovering the events that shape the way we eat today. The Daily Telegraph restaurant critic and famously acerbic MasterChef commentator, Sitwell discusses everything from the far-reaching influences of the Muslim world to the unintended consequences of the French Revolution. He reveals the full hideous glory of Britain’s post-WWII dining scene and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the counterculture of 1960’s America. This is a story of human ingenuity as individuals endeavor to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need, and decadent pleasure. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts and colorful episodes; an accessible and humorous history of a truly universal subject.
Download or read book Refugee Heritage written by Stephen Silverwood and published by Refugee Radio. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new book and documentary tell some of the stories behind the headlines and reveal the humanity of the individuals caught up in the asylum process. Based on interviews with refugees and migrants, their untold stories reveal the human stories beyond the clichés and stereotypes. Every day the news carries stories about asylum seekers crossing the channel or about new immigration policies, but we never hear from the people who are making the journeys themselves. This book and accompanying film bring their voices to the fore. The project is a joint initiative between our two grassroots charities, Refugee Radio and Conversation Over Borders. It was made possible by the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund and by a team of volunteers from the community. This book was made possible through the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the support of those involved.
Download or read book The Restaurant written by William Sitwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for the Daily Telegraph and famous for his acerbic criticisms on the hit BBC show MasterChef, tackles this enormous subject with his typical wit and precision. He spies influences from an ancient traveller of the Muslim world, revels in the unintended consequences for nascent fine dining of the French Revolution, reveals in full hideous glory the post-Second World War dining scene in the UK and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the US counterculture of the 1960s. This is a story of the ingenuity of the human race as individuals endeavour to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need and decadent pleasure. Sitwell, a familiar face in the UK and a figure known for the controversy he attracts, provides anyone who loves to dine out, or who loves history, or who simply loves a good read with an accessible and humorous history. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts; a book to read eagerly from start to finish or to spend glorious moments dipping in to. It may be William Sitwell’s History of Eating Out, but it’s also the definitive story of one of the cornerstones of our culture.
Download or read book Castaway Heritage written by Stephen Silverwood and published by Refugee Radio. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does it feel to be a castaway in the UK today? Our latest book is based on interviews with refugees and asylum seekers living in Brighton and East Sussex, and the people who work with those communities. It tells their stories, in their own words. The Castaway Heritage Project was made possible through the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the support of those involved.
Download or read book The Book of Lost Recipes written by Jaya Saxena and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contributor to Serious Eats and Gothamist among others with an obsession for great food made it her mission to dig up the best and vintage recipes from glamorous and now defunct restaurants in this nostalgic celebration of great food.Jaya Saxena takes readers on a tour around the country, into some of the once most popular restaurants in America to discuss the history and how-to's of their most infamous dishes. It is sort of vintage meets foodie. In their heyday, the legendary restaurants profiled by The Book of Lost Recipes were frequented by celebrity clientele and served food that became institutions of the American restaurant landscape, many of which are still reminisced about by those who had the opportunity to experience their cuisines. Read the stories of some of the most legendary restaurants in America and follow the recipes to recreate their most celebrated dishes. Depart from New York's Moskowitz & Lupowitz after learning all about their M & L Chopped Liver, of course, to Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia to find out the secrets behind their Fried Fish Cakes and Famous Baked Beans. Discover the story behind the Blintzes at Ashkenaz's Deli in Chicago to Paoli's Baked Canneloni in San Francisco. Take a step back in history to visit some of the most iconic restaurants in America and learn to make the dishes that helped re-shape the industry forever.
Download or read book The Invention of the Restaurant Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture with a New Preface written by Rebecca L. Spang and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize "Witty and full of fascinating details." --Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste--about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. "An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories." --Adam Gopnik, New Yorker "[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant." --New York Times "A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish." --The Times
Download or read book Australia written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each information-packed page is splashed with enticing photographs of the people, animals, deserts, and ocean vistas that make the country Down Under famous the world over. Full-color maps and at-a-glance tables make it easy to sort through dining and accommodation choices.
Download or read book Beyond Brick and Mortar written by Foodity (P) Limited and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the heart of India's vibrant and bustling street food culture with "Beyond Brick and Mortar." In this enlightening journey through the alleys and bylanes of the country, team Foodity serves up a delectable blend of economic insights, personal narratives, and a tantalizing exploration of the top street food vendors that define the essence of Indian street cuisine. Uncover the secrets behind the sizzling pans and bubbling cauldrons as the book delves into the on-the-ground economics of the street food market. From the sizzling aroma of spicy chaat to the mouthwatering allure of crisp dosas, each dish tells a story of resilience, innovation, and the indomitable spirit of the street vendors who bring these flavors to life. Through gripping anecdotes and firsthand accounts, the book introduces you to the unsung heroes behind the food stalls, whose stories are as rich and diverse as the dishes they serve. From the narrow lanes of Old Delhi to the bustling markets of Mumbai, we go beyond the superficial, offering readers a nuanced understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced by these culinary artisans. But the journey doesn't stop there. "Beyond Brick and Mortar" unveils the ultimate street food bucket list—the top 10 street food vendors in India. From crispy kachoris to piping hot jalebis, these vendors have mastered the art of transforming simple ingredients into gastronomic delights. Whether you're a food enthusiast, a traveler seeking authentic experiences, or someone curious about the economic underpinnings of street food, this book is your passport to a world where each bite tells a tale.
Download or read book Grand Forks written by Marilyn Hagerty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes—would you like those baked, mashed, or au gratin? A nice anniversary dinner? Would you rather visit the Holiday Inn or the Regency Inn? In Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small town where professors moonlight as farmers, farmers moonlight as football coaches, and everyone loves hockey, one woman has had the answers for more than twenty-five years: Marilyn Hagerty. In her weekly Eatbeat column in the local paper, Marilyn gives the denizens of Grand Forks the straight scoop on everything from the best blue plate specials—beef stroganoff at the Pantry—to the choicest truck stops—the Big Sioux (and its lutefisk lunch special)—to the ambience of the town's first Taco Bell. Her verdict? "A cool pastel oasis on a hot day." No-nonsense but wry, earnest but self-aware, Eatbeat also encourages the best in its readers—reminding them to tip well and why—and serves as its own kind of down-home social register, peopled with stories of ex–postal workers turned café owners and prom queen waitresses. Filled with reviews of the mom-and-pop diners that eventually gave way to fast-food joints and the Norwegian specialties that finally faded away in the face of the Olive Garden's endless breadsticks, Grand Forks is more than just a loving look at the shifts in American dining in the last years of the twentieth century—it is also a surprisingly moving and hilarious portrait of the quintessential American town, one we all recognize in our hearts regardless of where we're from.
Download or read book Classic Dining written by Peter Moruzzi and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an illustrated tour of America’s stylish and historic mid-century restaurants in this volume of color photographs and vintage ephemera. Over the years, the softly lit wood-paneled interiors, starched tablecloths, curved booths, tuxedoed captains, and tableside service that once defined continental-style fine dining have given way to more contemporary trends. Yet in American cities large and small, a few historic restaurants have maintained their classic character and old-school ambiance. With vivid new color photography and fascinating vintage ephemera, Classic Dining celebrates the great mid-century restaurants that continue to thrive in New York, the greater Miami area, New Orleans, Las Vegas, the Chicago area, Los Angeles, and across the United States. This volume also includes a directory of mid-century restaurants across America.
Download or read book Leisure and Tourism written by Peter Hayward and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By working through this text readers will cover the full range of topics needed for the GNVQ. The book gives the readers an opportunity to to learn to work with others as a member of a group and to take responsibility for their own learning.
Download or read book Searching Alternatives written by M R Dixit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the growth of societies, business and entrepreneurship are regarded as two significant and determinative concerns. Both notions, in reality, must be intertwined since they are the instruments for strengthening the stake on innovation, creativity, employment, and economic growth. As a result, management and entrepreneurship education must be promoted, and real-life managerial entrepreneurial stories can serve as role models for young students in India. The case study methodology is a significant pedagogy tool in the management education. The book is an attempt to disseminate the innovative and practice-based teaching material on management and entrepreneurship for higher education, with a focus on real-life contexts and practical learning. The case studies in the book include a rich variety of managerial and entrepreneurial challenges that have to be understood and solved in the real world, giving the student a dynamic experience on how to solve real world managerial and entrepreneurial challenges.
Download or read book Save the Deli written by David Sax and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sax journeys across the United States and around the world in search of authentic delicatessens. He investigates the deli's history, its diaspora, and its next generation in this great read that's a vibrant travelogue about Jewish food.
Download or read book The Invention of the Restaurant written by Rebecca L. Spang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1760s and 1770s, those who were sensitive and supposedly suffering made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as "restaurateurs' rooms" and sipping their bouillons there. However, the restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed. From restoratives to Restoration, Spang establishes the restaurant at the very intersection of public and private in French culture--the first public place where people went to be private.
