Author:
Spang, Rebecca L., 1961-
Edition Statement:2020 paperback edition.
ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2020]
Descriptionxxvi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:"With a new preface."
Note:The friend of all the world -- The nouvelle cuisine of Rousseauian sensibility -- Private appetites in a public space -- Morality, equality, hospitality! -- Fixed prices: gluttony and the French Revolution -- From gastromania to gastronomy -- Putting Paris on the menu -- Hiding in restaurants -- Epilogue: restaurants and reverie.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as "restaurateurs' rooms" to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed.
