Zagat Boston Restaurants
Zagat Boston Restaurants

Author: Zagat Survey (Firm)

Publisher:

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781570068638

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For almost 30 years, ZAGAT has reported on the shared experiences of diners. Here are the results of the 2007/08 BOSTON RESTAURANT SURVEY, covering hundreds of restaurants. The surveyors are men and women of all ages. No matter the economic climate, Boston's appetite for lively dining destinations continues unabated, inspiring ever bolder ventures. For every notable closing, there's another restaurateur waiting in the wings, often joined by an expensive team of architects and designers and ZAGATSURVEY is always there to note the changes. So whether you are looking for the hippest restaurant, where to dine with celebs or find a lunch bargain, the new ZAGATSURVEY 2007/08 BOSTON RESTAURANT guide rates and reviews the city’s best restaurants. The newest guide delivers ZAGAT’S signature comprehensive coverage, rating each restaurant on appeal, decor, service and cost.

America's Top Golf Courses 2007/08
America's Top Golf Courses 2007/08

Author: Zagat Survey (Firm)

Publisher:

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781570067372

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Based on the opinions of thousands of avid golfers, "America's Top Golf Courses" covers nearly 1,100 of the best public, semi-private, and resort courses in 49 states plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each course is rated on course, facilities, service, value and cost.

Foodies
Foodies

Author: Josee Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1317745000

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This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, indirectly maintaining and reproducing social inequality. While the first storyline insists that anybody can be a foodie, the second asks foodies to look in the mirror and think about their relative social and economic privilege. By simultaneously considering both of these stories, and studying how they operate in tension, a delicious sociology of food becomes available, perfect for teaching a broad range of cultural sociology courses.

Zagat Paris Restaurants
Zagat Paris Restaurants

Author: Alexander Lobrano

Publisher:

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781570068621

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For almost 30 years, ZAGAT SURVEY has reported on the shared experiences of diners. This book displays the results of the 2007/08 PARIS RESTAURANT SURVEY, covering nearly 1,000.

The Philosophy of Food
The Philosophy of Food

Author: David M. Kaplan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0520951972

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This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan’s erudite and informative introduction grounds the discussion, showing how philosophers since Plato have taken up questions about food, diet, agriculture, and animals. However, until recently, few have considered food a standard subject for serious philosophical debate. Each of the essays in this book brings in-depth analysis to many contemporary debates in food studies—Slow Food, sustainability, food safety, and politics—and addresses such issues as "happy meat," aquaculture, veganism, and table manners. The result is an extraordinary resource that guides readers to think more clearly and responsibly about what we consume and how we provide for ourselves, and illuminates the reasons why we act as we do.

Food and Social Media
Food and Social Media

Author: Signe Rousseau

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2012-06-16

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0759120447

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Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people’s lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the major changes brought about by the Internet and also explores the polarities that underlie the challenges of adaptation, including exclusivity versus democracy, professionalism versus amateurism, and business versus pleasure. Loaded with insight into the current scene, it discusses controversies such as celebrity chefs’ tweeting wars, ethics and the accusations of plagiarizing of recipes, and etiquette concerning the practice of photographing a meal to blog about it. Food and Social Media will appeal to anyone with an interest in food and media as well as those who enjoy using any of the social media formats, including blogs, Yelp, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and more, to participate in a digital food community.

Cultural Flows in High-End Cuisine
Cultural Flows in High-End Cuisine

Author: Christel Lane

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1040093019

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Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York. Through the voices of chefs and other professionals in the industry, this book invites readers to rethink our understandings of high-end and ethnic cuisines, as well as the conventions and principles that shape the contemporary field of gastronomy and fine-dining. It examines a broad range of cuisines, including Peruvian, Korean, Mexican, Malaysian, Senegalese, West African, Thai, Chinese, and Indian, and conveys the chefs’ voices as they strive to elevate their cuisines through discursive and material means, including the shaping of menus, and restaurant decor. While the main focus falls on chefs as the producers of high-end cuisines, this book also gives consideration to their consumers, that is cosmopolitan diners in the two global cities, and to the influence of culinary intermediaries judging and legitimizing their high-end status. Theoretically, this book contributes to the debate on cultural globalization. It undertakes a study of hitherto rarely examined cultural counterflows or reverse cultural globalization and analyzes both the precipitants of this occurrence and the effects of cultural counterflows on both Western global cities and the home countries of chefs. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food studies, food cultures, cultural globalization, and culinary studies.