Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

"A delicious romp through America's rapidly changing and diverging restaurant scene . . . an informative, witty, and delightful book." —Andrew F. Smith, editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Haute has blurred with homey cuisine in the last few decades, but how did this radical change happen, and what does it say about current attitudes toward taste? Here with the answers is food writer Alison Pearlman. In Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style ...