Description: Grand Forks : A History of American Dining in 128 Reviews, Paperback by Hagerty, Marilyn, ISBN 0062228897, ISBN-13 9780062228895, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes -- would you like those baked, mashed, or au gratin? A nice anniversary dinner? Would you rather visit the Holiday Inn or the Regency Inn? In Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small town where professors moonlight as farmers, farmers moonlight as football coaches, and everyone loves hockey, one woman has had the answers for more than twenty-five years: Marilyn her weekly Eatbeat column in the local paper, Marilyn gives the denizens of Grand Forks the straight scoop on everything from the best blue plate specials -- beef stroganoff at the Pantry -- to the choicest truck stops -- the Big Sioux (and its lutefisk lunch special) -- to the ambience of the town's first Taco Bell. Her verdict? "A cool pastel oasis on a hot day." No-nonsense but wry, earnest but self-aware, Eatbeat also encourages the best in its readers -- reminding them to tip well and why -- and serves as its own kind of down-home social register, peopled with stories of ex-postal workers turned cafâe owners and prom queen waitresses. Filled with reviews of the mom-and-pop diners that eventually gave way to fast food joints, and the Norwegian specialties that finally faded away in the face of the Olive Garden's endless breadsticks, this is a loving look at the shifts in American dining in the last years of the twentieth century
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Book Title: Grand Forks : a History of American Dining in 128 Reviews
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Regional & Ethnic / American / Southwestern States, General, Essays
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Travel, Cooking, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 8.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: The Grand Forks Herald, Marilyn Hagerty
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
