Brian Duff

Restaurant (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theater, plating has become art and ubiquitous Instagram content. But in recent years restaurants have faced crisis upon crisis. Restaurant takes a deep dive into the drives, desires, and anxieties we bring to dining out at this time of uncertainty. It explores the meaning we find in good food and warm hospitality. It shows why the restaurant offers unique opportunities to change the quality of our engagement with others and to create shared meaning across the table

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765121849
• Artikelnr.: 73481897

Autorenporträt

Brian Duff is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New England, USA. He is the author of The Parent as Citizen. His writing about restaurants, food and wine has appeared in the Portland Phoenix, the Boston Phoenix and the New Yorker.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter 1: Cared for and part of the world
Chapter 2: Eating and talking
Chapter 3: The restaurant and the shudder
Chapter 4: Small portions
Chapter 5: Ethics and sanctimony
Chapter 6: Across the table
Epilogue: On My Dinner with Andre
Index

Rezensionen

A lyrical meditation on nourishment, conversation, and our fantasies that are all the more vital for being inevitably disappointed.