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First Aired - 01/05/2012 12:00PM
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How did restaurants become such a staple in American culture? Tune in for a lively discussion with historian and professor Cindy Lobel on this week's episode of A Taste of the Past. Linda and Cindy chat about the history of restaurants in New York, and explain how our foodways were urbanized and colonial taverns evolved into the modern day restaurant. From Delmonico's to boarding houses, learn more about the emergence of the restaurant and our gastronomic growth. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market
"The growth of restaurants in New York is directly related to the growth of New York."
--historian Cindy Lobel on A Taste of the Past
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A Taste of the Past: Dining Out in Early Gotham (20:31)
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A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, culinary history, history of restaurants, urban institutions, emergence of the restaurant, Cindy Lobel, assistant professor of history at Lehman College, urbanization on foodways, colonial taverns, eating houses, refectories, horse drawn transportation, Delmonico's, Alice Ross, Hearth to Hearth, boarding meals, boiled dinners,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/18/2012 11:00AM
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Acclaimed essayist and writer Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker joins Mitchell Davis on an especially taste-themed episode of Taste Matters. They have conversations about how taste is so deeply rooted in morality in this country and how our palates are so closely linked to our culture and experiences. Hear why Elizabeth Pennell was such an important influence on Adam's latest book, The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food. Listen in as Mitchell and Adam discuss French cuisine, food eroticism, and modern day food reform movements. You don't want to miss this one! Sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.
"We are puritanically health obsessed in a way that other countries are not."
"The first function that a restaurant has is that it's a place of courtship....Built into eating out is an idea of sex."
"I am a deep skeptic of new-wave desserts."
--writer and essayist Adam Gopnik on Taste Matters
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Taste Matters: Adam Gopnik (17:27)
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Mitchell Davis, Taste Matters, Heritage Radio Network, Adam Gopnik, The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food, The New Yorker, taste arguments, palate, moral taste, kohser, food identity, right vs wrong, menus, New York Public Library, Delmonico's, local food,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/14/2012 01:00PM
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On this episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Rebecca Federman of the Culinary Collections at the New York Public Library. Today, they are discussing the NYPL's old menu collection and the new What's on the Menu? program. Hear about old menus from the inauguration of President McKinley to the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. Help out the NYPL by helping to digitize some of these menus to create a searchable database! Tune in to learn about some of the more obscure NYC menu items, as well as the role of midday lunch in building the restaurant business in the city. This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.
"There are the everyday menus that I find very graphically beautiful and interesting. Or there are children's menus that I find really adorable." -- Rebecca Federman on her favorite menus, A Taste of the Past
Restaurants are such a huge part of our social history, that to not have these documents is such a loss." -- Rebecca Federman on A Taste of the Past
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Menus from the early 1900s (13:23)
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menu, New York Public Library, library collection, Rebecca Federman, The Astor House, hotel menus, Delmonico, What's on the Menu? Program, database, digitize old menus, dishes, NYPL, transcribing menus, turtle soup, data set, New York, Statue of Liberty, inauguration, Prohibition, beer, malts, holiday menus, Art Nouveau,Everyone's Transcribing! (15:41)
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transcribing, historians, chefs, graphic designers, library, novelists, alligator pear, language, avocado, service, cocktails, menu layout, roasts, joints, farinaceous, farm, description, Wikipedia, Lunch Hour NYC, Laura Shapiro, lunch in New York, automat, lunch at home, school lunch, power lunch, The Four Seasons, dinner menu, lunch menu, quick lunch, cafeteria, working women, Schrafft's, The Explorer's Club,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
