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Gary Alan Fine

Kitchens

The Culture of Restaurant Work

Updated with a New Preface
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$22.95, £15.95 paperback

9780520257924

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328 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
December 2008, Available worldwide
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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.
"A thorough examination."—Los Angeles Reader

"A solid, sensible ethnographic study, carefully researched and elegantly presented."—Washington City Paper
Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.
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