• The Restaurant

  • A History of Eating Out
  • De: William Sitwell
  • Narrado por: William Sitwell
  • Duración: 8 h y 46 m
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (17 calificaciones)

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As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today.

Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for the Daily Telegraph and famous for his acerbic criticisms on the hit BBC show MasterChef, tackles this enormous subject with his typical wit and precision. He spies influences from an ancient traveller of the Muslim world, revels in the unintended consequences for nascent fine dining of the French Revolution, reveals in full hideous glory the post-Second World War dining scene in the UK and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the US counterculture of the 1960s.

This is a story of the ingenuity of the human race as individuals endeavour to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need and decadent pleasure. Sitwell, a familiar face in the UK and a figure known for the controversy he attracts, provides anyone who loves to dine out, or who loves history, or who simply loves a good listen, with an accessible and humorous history. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts, a book to listen to eagerly from start to finish or to spend glorious moments dipping in to.

It may be William Sitwell’s History of Eating Out, but it’s also the definitive story of one of the cornerstones of our culture.

©2020 William Sitwell (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK

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Not A Good History

To be fair, the author starts out the book by saying that really is a compilation of stories, moments in time and people that he finds interesting and not a complete history. This is true but what the author doesn’t say is that many of the stories only tangentially have anything to do at all with the history of eating out. Much of this book is about little known historical figures that the author finds interesting and he justifies writing about them here because they once drank a cup of coffee in public. Very disappointing.

The narrator also seems to have an excess saliva problem and sucks and smacks on it every other sentence making it a tough listen.

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Loser book

Rambling . Pointless .... redundant ... no new insights or thesis ... uneducated historian that read a few books and thought he could write one. Very disappointing. Pass

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