
Ten Restaurants That Changed America
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Narrated by:
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Keith Szarabajka
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By:
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Paul Freedman
From Delmonico's to Sylvia's to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through 10 legendary restaurants.
Combining a historian's rigor with a foodie's palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco's fabled the Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé's Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Freedman also treats us to a scintillating history of the then-revolutionary Schrafft's, a chain of convivial lunch spots that catered to women, and that bygone favorite, Howard Johnson's, which pioneered on-the-road dining only to be swept aside by McDonald's.
Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining social history.
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Wow talk about a hidden gem!
While ostensibly about “10 Restaurants that Changed America” this book is a thrilling ride through American and world culinary history that kept me engaged from “minute 1” until the very end!
Each of the 10 restaurants is given a thorough treatment by Freedman and he leaves you enthralled by each…in addition to the cast of characters who founded, ran, and patronized them.
Freedman’s writing combined with Keith Szarbajka’s pleasantly deep and gravely voice made this a listening and discovery experience that I’ll no doubt re-consume in the future.
A “must listen” for any food history nerd!
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Very long
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Pretty extensive
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Interesting cooking stories from America’s history
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Lived up to expectations did not exceed
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Delicious Details
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Excellently written
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Very interesting, but lost momentum /enthusiasm
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Still, it is nutso that publishers continue to hire narrators who cannot even come close to pronouncing words in a language central to a book's plot. This audiobook is farrrrr from alone in this offense, but a book specifically about food culture that is peppered very heavily with French cuisine terms really should have been read by someone who could've wielded them better than a bad date trying in vain to sound posh and cultured. Szarabajka's pronunciation of even rudimentary terms is just painful. This didn't require an actual francophone, but a rough idea of pronunciation would've been lovely. His massacring of the few Chinese, Spanish, Italian and other cuisine terms is equally bad, but since they appear far less frequently it's not nearly as annoying.
Worthwhile listen, cringe-worthy pronunciations
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Interesting perspective
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