Turning the Tables

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Turning the Tables is written by Andrew P. Haley and published by UNC Press Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807877921 (ISBN 10) and 9780807877920 (ISBN 13).

In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation of public dining that established the middle class as the arbiter of American culture was forged through battles over French-language menus, scientific eating, cosmopolitan cuisines, unescorted women, un-American tips, and servantless restaurants.