Grimes offers a rollicking tour of the history of New York City's restaurants, exploring the ways in which sex and class determined where and how a person would eat, and how the city's restaurant scene mirrored the larger social and political forces shaping New York. Photographs.
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The historical part was better cured. I liked it better, when the author would speak about the NYC of the past, the dining evolution, back when he was not there and had to keep a distance from the scene. But when he arrives at contemporary times, at his own experiences, he becomes partial, he refers mostly to his own experiences -and when he does not, there it comes, the dreaded shopping list of names, new places, new tastes. From smooth narrative to data deluge. Yeah, it doesn't help that we are living in the time of superstar chefs and constant innovation, but it becomes tough to follow any sense of evolution...
