Kitchens to Communities: Migrant Workers, Fast Food, and the Rise of Dining Out in California

Dining out became a defining feature of modern California and the United States after World War II. This was not only through corporate expansion powered by changes in agricultural and trade policies, franchising, and women's demands for alternatives to home cooking, but also through the labor, entrepreneurship, and community-building of migrants. Kitchens to Communities examines the intertwined rise of migrant labor and the restaurant industry in California. Allison Varzally traces how imm...