Restaurant

by Brian Duff

ISBN: 9798765121825

Published: 2025-05-29

"In the last twenty years restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural purchase. But in recent years the restaurant has faced crisis upon crisis: revelations of sexism and harassment, racism and low pay, unsafe and unfair conditions of labor, and covid. Having taken a pandemic era break from our habits of eating out, how do we return the table? Restaurant explores how and why we have burdened restaurant dining with both acknowledged and unacknowledged drives, desires, and anxieties. It suggests that we might discover new rewards at the restaurant if we examine these forces, and reconfigure their ties to our meals"--