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Appetite city
a culinary history of New York
By Grimes, William W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-86547-692-9
- Publisher
- New York : North Point Press, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2009
Former New York Times restaurant critic (1999-2003) Grimes chronicles New York City's colorful culinary history from the early 1800s to the present. He notes the first takeout restaurant, the Eastern Coffee House, which advertised in the New York Post in 1813, and he describes the abundant seafood surrounding the city-huge Hudson River sturgeon and oysters as large as a dinner plate in the bays ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
