To make a restaurant -- Friend of all the world -- Nouvelle cuisine of rousseauian sensibility -- Private appetites in a public space -- Morality, equality, hospitality! -- Fixed prices: gluttony and the French revolution -- From gastromania to gastronomy -- Putting Paris on the menu -- Hiding in restaurants
Summary:
Traces the origins of the restaurant to eighteenth-century France, describing how Parisians invented the art of eating out, and in the process, changed their own social life and that of the world.
