title: Out to eat: the emergence and evolution of the restaurant in nineteenth-century New York City.
abstract: Unheard of in the eighteenth century, restaurants became an integral part of New York City's public culture in the antebellum period. This article examines the emergence and development of New York's restaurant sector in the nineteenth century, focusing on three aspects in particular: the close ties between urbanization and the rise of New York's restaurants, the role restaurants played in enforcing the city's class structure and gender mores, and the role of restaurants in shaping the public culture of the growing metropolis.
authors.affiliation: Lehman College, City University of New York.
authors.forename: Cindy R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Lobel
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004326:Drinking / Q000208:ethnology; D004435:Eating / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D005783:Gender Identity; D049672:History, 19th Century; D009519:New York City / Q000208:ethnology; D012147:Restaurants / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012919:Social Behavior; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012923:Social Class / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014507:Urbanization / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence