Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity

by Joanne Finkelstein

Book Overview

Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local caf to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life--restaurant dining--and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167970
• ISBN13: 9780231167970
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher