Description What does eating out tell us about who we are? The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from eighteenth-century Paris to El Bulli, now in paperback.
The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry.
But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories.
This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Par.