The Yale Club of Hartford will hold its Annual Meeting and Dinner on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford, starting at 6:00. After a cocktail hour, a buffet dinner, and a brief meeting, we will hear from our special guest: Yale Professor Paul Freedman, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History.

We will begin the evening at 5:30 with a cocktail hour (cash bar) with passed hors d'Oeuvres, then proceed to a buffet dinner.  After Professor Freedman's presentation, we will conduct the business portion of the meeting.

Professor Freedman specializes in an unusual and fascinating juxtaposition of subjects: medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, comparative studies of the peasantry, trade in luxury products, and the history of cuisine.  His presentation will focus on his latest book: Ten Restaurants That Changed America (Liveright/Norton, 2016).

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Ten Restaurants That Changed America:: 

From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants.

Combining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco’s fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone’s, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soulé’s Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Freedman also treats us to a scintillating history of the then-revolutionary Schrafft’s, a chain of convivial lunch spots that catered to women, and that bygone favorite, Howard Johnson’s, which pioneered midcentury, on-the-road dining, only to be swept aside by McDonald's. Lavishly designed with more than 100 photographs and images, including original menus, Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining social history.

Please make your reservations and payments now for what promises to be an entertaining and informative evening among friends old and new.

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