Non-fiction
In the Restaurant
Society in four courses

Christoph Ribbat

English

In the Restaurant
Christoph Ribbat
Translation: Jamie Lee Searle
London, Pushkin Press 2017
224 pages

German

Im Restaurant
Christoph Ribbat
Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag 2016
228 pages

This history of modern restaurants takes a glimpse into their dining rooms as well as behind the scenes with anecdotes from and about guests, cooks and waiters. Restaurants provide not only food and enjoyment, but also serve as meeting places. In this way they hold a mirror up to society. 

Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

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