Smart Casual - The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

Informationen zum Autor Alison Pearlman is a Los Angeles-based art historian and cultural critic who blogs under the name the Eye in Dining. She teaches modern and contemporary art and design history at Cal Poly Pomona and is the author of Unpackaging Art of the 1980s! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers! white tablecloths! and suited waiters with elegant accents. It was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his kitchen. The author examines what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants. Zusammenfassung Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers! white tablecloths! and suited waiters with elegant accents. It was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his kitchen. The author examines what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Pearlman, Pearlman Alison
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226651408
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65140-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, COOKING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Cookery / food & drink etc, Food & society, United States of America, USA, Cultural studies: food and society, Cookery / food and drink / food writing