Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the
contemporary world? Restaurants are framed by the logic of the
market, but promise experiences not of the market. Restaurants are
key sites for practices of social distinction, where chefs struggle
for recognition as stars and patrons insist on seeing and being
seen. Restaurants define urban landscapes, reflecting and shaping
the character of neighborhoods, or standing for the ethos of an
entire city or nation. Whether they spread authoritarian French
organizational models or the bland standardization of American fast
food, restaurants have been accused of contributing to the
homogenization of cultures. Yet restaurants have also played a
central role in the reassertion of the local, as powerful cultural
brokers and symbols for protests against a globalized food system.
The Restaurants Book brings together anthropological insights into
these thoroughly postmodern places.
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