The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
(University of Chicago Press)
David S. Shields is the Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina and the chairman of the Board of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation. His book, The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining, is a history of professional cooking in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, told through profiles of 175 of the most important cooks and restaurateurs of the period.
