Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
by
Andrew P. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation...