A Century of Dining Out – The American Story in Menus, 1841–1941

Henry Voigt, Paul Freedman

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English

Grolier Club of New York
04 July 2023

Popular culture; Restaurant, cafe & pub guides

A fascinating tour of US history through food, as reflected in a century of restaurant menus.

Menus aid our cultural memory. They provide unwitting historical evidence not only of what people were eating but of how they spent their leisure time, and what they valued. A Century of Dining Out offers a fascinating tour of American culture, using menus as a road map.

As Henry Voigt explains, menus came into use with the nineteenth-century expansion of hotels and restaurants in the United States, a time when service à la russe—serving dishes in courses rather than all at once—was growing in popularity. For the first time, diners were offered choice and anticipation when dining outside the home. Menus were the written record of this novel experience. Throughout the book, Voigt weaves in two pervasive American themes—celebrations of civic progress and the growth of the middle class—to explore how menus have illustrated the quotidian life of US citizens from nearly all social classes. As he shows, menus can be read as markers of technological achievements and major historical events eras, from the Civil War and the Gilded Age to Prohibition and the Great Depression. Illustrated with nearly ninety color images, A Century of Dining Out offers vivid and visually sumptuous proof of the dining table’s unsung importance to US history.

By: Henry Voigt, Paul Freedman
Imprint: Grolier Club of New York
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 283mm, Width: 202mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781605830902
ISBN 10: 1605830909
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely

Henry Voigt is a collector and historian of American culinary and social customs. Paul Freedman is professor of history at Yale University.

Reviews for A Century of Dining Out – The American Story in Menus, 1841–1941

"""The show is a canny blend of social, military, and political history—to say nothing of black and women's history, and, of course, culinary history."" * Joanne Kaufman | Wall Street Journal *"