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__He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia’s mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey.__ This fascinating culinarian is John Dabney (1821–1900), who was born a slave, but later built an enterprising catering business. Dabney is just one of 175 influential cooks and restaurateurs profiled by David S. Shields in __The Culinarians,__ a beautifully produced encyclopedic history of the rise of professional cooking in America from the early republic to Prohibition. Shields’s concise biographies include the legendary Julien, founder in 1793 of America’s first restaurant, Boston’s Restorator; and Louis Diat and Oscar of the Waldorf, the men most responsible for keeping the ideal of fine dining alive between the World Wars. Though many of the gastronomic pioneers gathered here are less well known, their diverse influence on American dining should not be overlooked—plus, their stories are truly entertaining. We meet an African American oyster dealer who became the Congressional caterer, and, thus, a powerful b

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Author

David S. Shields

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226406893

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Cooking, Historical Fiction, History

Rating

4.8 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14