Author Talk: Paul Freedman’s “Ten Restaurants That Changed America” on October 24

Local author Paul Freedman — who is also the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University — will return to the Library on Monday, October 24, to discuss his new book, Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The book takes readers on a coast-to-coast culinary journey — from Howard Johnson’s to the Four Seasons to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse. The talk begins at 7pm.

If you’d like to get a sneak peek at the book, it was recently reviewed in The New Yorker. The review’s author, Jane Kramer, writes: “Freedman has spent the better part of the past decade eating out, and it is clear from the first few pages of  ‘Ten Restaurants’ that those restaurants are not the whole story he has to tell but what you could call ‘transformative prototypes’ — platforms from which to open a discussion of the way America eats, the ethnic and racial and regional and class and immigrant realities that its kitchens represent, and the entrepreneurs with the passion or the wisdom or simply the ambition to embrace (and profit from) the simmering stockpot of social change.”

Come to the Library on October 24 and learn more!