Restaurant Republic – The Rise of Public Dining in Boston Erby Paperback

Restaurant RepublicThe Rise of Public Dining in Boston\nAuthor(s): Kelly Erby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816691319, 978-0816691319\nSynopsis\nBefore the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining.\n\nIn this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century. Why Boston? Its more modest assortment of restaurants, its less impressive-but still significant-expansion in commerce and population, and its growing diversity made it more typical of the nations other urban centers than New York. Restaurants, clearly segmented along class, gender, race, ethnic, and other lines, helped Bostonians become more comfortable with deepening social stratification in their city and you.