xlvi, 527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ten restaurants and American cuisine -- Delmonico's : America's first restaurant -- Antoine's : haute creole -- Schrafft's : seeking out the female customer -- Howard Johnson's : as American as fried clams -- Mamma Leone's : Italian entertainment -- The Mandarin : "the best Chinese food east of the Pacific" -- Sylvia's : the soul of Harlem -- Le Pavillon : midcentury French -- Four Seasons : the epitome of modern -- Chez Panisse : "the way we eat now" -- Epilogue.