REC 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nouvelle Cuisine, Hard Rock Cafe, Frozen Food
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Food and beverage: greeks said eating nourishes the body and soul, rarely dined out but when they did it was primarily for the social purposes. Did not do on a day to day basis. Middle ages (476 ad 1500 ad: the main purpose of dinner was to eat, landowners, lived in relative comfort. Renaissance (1500 ad 1610 ad: world travel/international trade grew. Improved the european way of life: start of elaborate and refined system of food preparation (haute cuisine) 1600s ad: dutch east india company primarily used for finding spices. Cape town was found when people were looking for these spices: travel birth of the simple tavern, limited basic, strict serving times. If you were late too bad you go hungry: colonial north america 16(cid:1007)(cid:1008) cole(cid:859)s i(cid:374)(cid:374) (cid:449)as the first e(cid:448)er food a(cid:374)d lodgi(cid:374)g. 1700s: first restaurant was in 1765 monsieur boulanger. 1793 employers of leading french chefs lost their heads and many chefs decided to move to north america.
