Kitchens

The Culture of Restaurant Work

Gary Alan Fine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2008
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-25792-4 (ISBN)

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Offering a portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, this book presents their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life.

"Kitchens" takes 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.

Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.

Preface to the 2009 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. Living the Kitchen Life
Chapter 2. Cooks'Time:Temporal Demands
and the Experience of Work
Chapter 3. The Kitchen as Place and Space
Chapter 4· The Commonwealth of Cuisine
Chapter 5· The Economical Cook:Organization as Business
Chapter 6. Aesthetic Constraints
Chapter 7· The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse
Chapter 8. The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life
Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen:Issues and Cases
Notes
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2008
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-25792-8 / 0520257928
ISBN-13	978-0-520-25792-4 / 9780520257924
Zustand	Neuware