Awards

• Commended for IACP Crystal Whisk Award (Culinary History) 2012
• Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Reference) 2012

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Haley makes great use of an astonishing collection of sources, such as menus, trade journals, popular magazines, and cartoons, to produce an engaging history that sheds fresh light on the creation and meaning of the American middle class and that will encourage readers to think more deeply about their decision about where to go for dinner. -- The Historian

Turning the Tables is a significant contribution to existing scholarship on class, culture, and consumption. <br>- Journal of Illinois History

Haley's book is a lively, engagingly written, and well-researched examination of the origins of dining and the restaurant as we know it. It's a true pleasure to read. --Warren Belasco, author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry <br>

Turning the Tables is an engaging read. <br>- LA Weekly blog

A sumptuous dish for anyone interested in middle-class culture of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, as well as an important contribution to the growing historiography around restaurant and food history. -- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Er

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Andrew P. Haley is associate professor of American cultural history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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