Fashioning appetite : restaurants and the making of modern identity / Joanne Finkelstein.

Follow-up to: Dining out : a sociology of modern manners. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Fashionable food -- Defining the restaurant -- Toying with food -- Food rules -- The universal meal and the origins of taste -- Fashioning appetite -- The status of food -- 2. Taste and desire -- The food economy -- Taste -- Longing -- Identity for sale -- 3. Eating habits -- Classic studies -- Inside the restaurant -- Service and style -- 4. Michelin stars and Western obesity -- The perfect meal -- The body as spectacle -- Susan Boyle -- The spectacle of food -- Marketing food -- 5. The anomic consumer -- Self-absorption -- Inventing the self -- The beginning of cool -- The city and modern identity -- The quest -- The cold present -- 6. The banality of food -- Cold restaurants -- Life at the surface.