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Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining

✍️ Quinzio, Jeri
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🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 📅 2016 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781442272385

📝 Description: Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining

Food on the Rails traces the rise and fall of food on the rails from its rocky start to its glory days to its sad demise. Looking at the foods, the service, the rail station restaurants, the menus, the dining accommodations and more, Jeri Quinzio brings to life the history of cuisine and dining in railroad cars from the early days through today.

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This volume is strictly for the history buff or the culinary academic; casual cooks will likely find it dry. It does not suit those seeking practical recipes or kitchen techniques, as the focus remains entirely on historical service and menu evolution rather than instruction. Potential buyers must judge this work purely on its thematic relevance to food history shelves. It lacks the narrative flair of popular food memoirs but fills a specific archival gap for researchers studying institutional dining.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

This volume is strictly for the history buff or the culinary academic; casual cooks will likely find it dry. It does not suit those seeking practical recipes or kitchen techniques, as the focus remains entirely on historical service and menu evolution rather than instruction. Potential buyers must judge this work purely on its thematic relevance to food history shelves. It lacks the narrative flair of popular food memoirs but fills a specific archival gap for researchers studying institutional dining.

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