The Invention of the Restaurant ADULT AUDIO NON FICTION this one-of-a-kind volume

this one-of-a-kind volume

‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change

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The Invention of the Restaurant ADULT AUDIO NON FICTION this one-of-a-kind volumeWinner 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