Hotels and Restaurants

Sooner or later it was bound to occur to a major food writer that there was a need for a comprehensive history of dining out in America, and we can be glad that someone as articulate as the food and travel correspondent for Esquire was the one so inspired. The author of a number of books on food and drink, Mariani has written an immensely interesting, illustrated survey of restaurants from colonial times to the present time, when fast-food eateries have catapulted the industry to the rank of third largest in the country.