Ten Restaurants That Changed America Audiobook (Free)

From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants

Combining a historian’s rigor using a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Transformed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing significantly less than the history of America itself.

Whether charting the rise of our romance with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled the Mandarin, causing the richness of Italian meals through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute food through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, meals historian Paul Freedman uses each cafe to tell a wider tale of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Freedman also goodies us to a scintillating history of the then-revolutionary Schrafft’s, a chain of convivial lunch time areas that catered to ladies, which bygone preferred, Howard Johnson’s, which pioneered on-the-road dining, only to end up being swept aside by McDonald’s.

10 Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining cultural history.

“A solid historical trek through America’s restaurant food over three generations.”-Kirkus Reviews