2013: What are you reading at the moment?

[Graybeard]

8. Appetite City by William Grimes

It's a history of restaurants in New York City starting with the street-side Oyster Stands in and around the Fulton Fish Market in the early 1800s.

It's hard to believe but there were no restaurants in America until the 1850's. People ate at home and travelers had a buffet table in their hotel
or a very limited choice of foods at the inn.

The Delmonico brothers changed everything in NYC when
they opened their "french-style" eating establishment in the 1830s.

It's a good read.