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Dining out : a history of the restaurant in New Zealand / Perrin Rowland.
- Title
- Dining out : a history of the restaurant in New Zealand / Perrin Rowland.
- Author
- Rowland, Perrin
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TX910.N45 R69 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 280 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book introduces us to the history of the New Zealand restaurant from the 1860s to the present. Drawing on menus, memories, photographs and newspapers, Perrin Rowland tells the story of New Zealand's first nineteenth-century restaurants; luxury in the golden age; licensing and the Depression years; World War II and the Americans; post-war dining and the six o'clock swill; the rise of ethnic restaurants; and our contemporary explosion of flavours.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Earliest restaurants -- Golden age of restaurants, 1880s to 1914 -- Licensing and the Depression, 1914 to 1939 -- Dining out on the Home Front, 1939 to 1950 -- Post-war dining out, 1946 to the early 1960s -- "Gastronomical we', 1960s to 1970s -- Coming of age, 1980s to 2000s -- Restaurant reflections.
- ISBN
- 9781869404642 (hbk.)
- 1869404645 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 641983691
- SCSB-11428580
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library