Kitchens : The Culture of Restaurant Work

by Fine, Gary Alan

• ISBN13: 9780520257924
• ISBN10: 0520257928
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780520942899
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Kitchenstakes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture.

Author Biography

Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, author of With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture, and co-author of Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America (UC Press)

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2009 Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Living the Kitchen Life	p. 17
Cooks' Time: Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work	p. 54
The Kitchen as Place and Space	p. 80
The Commonwealth of Cuisine	p. 112
The Economical Cook: Organization as Business	p. 138
Aesthetic Constraints	p. 177
The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse	p. 199
The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life	p. 219
Ethnography in the Kitchen: Issues and Cases	p. 233
Notes	p. 255
References	p. 267
Index	p. 293
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