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When did people start to eat out? When did the restaurant as we know it today actually come into being? Join us by whetting your appetite with an April Cocktail – The Lion's Tail -- from the first true restaurant in London, the Café Royal, published in its book of cocktails in 1937. Our hour together will be an illustrated talk with emphasis on the US and England. Join us for this fascinating ESU Happy Hour on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 4:00 pm Central Time. Happy Hours are free online programs, but registration is required. When you register, you will receive a link to join the program. 

The story is told in the book Dining Out, a collaboration between Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore. Katie is a scholar of (US) Southern foodways, Elliott has written on a variety of historical topics. He is a Philadelphian who has lived in London – he has a degree from the London School of Economics – Tokyo, Taipei, Taiwan and in Cologne, Germany.

An excerpt from a New York Times review by Florence Fabricant: "Unlike many books that delve into the history of restaurants and begin with France (or wayside taverns elsewhere), the academics who have written "Dining Out," a compelling volume, start in the Bronze Age. Their definition of a restaurant is elastic, referring to places where strangers might have gathered to eat and drink, including the symposiums of ancient Greece."

About Elliot Shore

Elliott Shore is an historian, librarian, and chief information officer. He has published books and articles on the history of advertising, the history of publishing, of radicalism, of German-America and of restaurants. He has had leadership positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Bryn Mawr College, and the Association of Research Libraries – the latter a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries and comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the US and Canada that share similar research missions, aspirations, and achievements. He was instrumental in the rebuilding and restoring of two historic libraries in Philadelphia: the Annenberg Research Institute's Library (formerly Dropsie College, now part of the University of Pennsylvania) and the Joseph Horner Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania. He has helped to establish a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that has helped more than 200 recent Ph.D.'s to begin hybrid career roles in the academy and is co-dean of the Leading Change Institute.

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