Alternate episode title: “Bashing Our Husbands and the French Since 2023”
Inns, taverns, and cookshops, oh my! Come along with Julia and Nicole on a journey through time following the development of the modern restaurant. From Pompeii to the French Revolution, people have always enjoyed eating out and having opinions on what women are allowed to do. We also get wiggy with the feminist restaurants of the 1970s and Julia only mispronounces “aristocracy” wrong like three times at most.
Our theme song is “Red Onions” by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul
We’re on Twitter at @girlslunch and on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole is on Twitter @nicoleh262 and her website is nicolehylton.com. Julia is smarter than all of us and not on social media.
Sources:
The Restaurant: A 2,000-Year History of Dining Out, by William Sitwell
Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses, by Alex D. Ketchum
“Women and Restaurants in the 19th Century United States,” by Paul Freedman
“How The White Establishment Waged A 'War' On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.” by Kat Chow
Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, K. C. Chang, editor [Yale University Press:New Haven] 1977 (p. 158-163)
