Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work - Brossura

Fine, Gary Alan

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ISBN 10: 0520200780 ISBN 13: 9780520200784

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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. He provides a riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture. Working conditions, time constraints, market forces, and aesthetic goals all figure into the food served to customers—who often don't know quite what they're getting.

The kitchen is a place of constant compromise, of quirks, approximations, dirty tricks, surprises, and short cuts, as Fine demonstrates in his deft, readable narrative. He brings to life the complicated relationships among kitchen workers—servers, dishwashers, pantry workers, managers, restaurant critics, and customers—and reveals the effects of organizational structure on individual relations.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia and the author of With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture (1987), among other books.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"From the raw to the cooked, Kitchens takes us inside the fascinating world of restaurant work. But be prepared. Abandon preconceptions all ye who enter, for here's an original and important peek into the patois, the pecking order, the profits, and the people who produce what we eat when we eat out. . . . A real by-the-book example of superior occupational sociology, as it was meant to be."—Rob Faulkner, University of Massachusetts

"A carefully researched, brilliantly analyzed and elegantly described study of a major American industry. His negotiated order and combined interactional-structural approach is a model for sociological industries and organizations."—Anselm Strauss, University of California, San Francisco

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520200780
• ISBN 13: 9780520200784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320