
From the Kislak Stacks
These monthly lunchtime presentations by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focus on individual works or small archives and collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
This talk will explore the early history of restaurants and showcase materials relating to Beauvilliers’ restaurant and its celebrity chef.
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It is generally agreed that the modern restaurant had its beginnings in Paris in the mid to late 18th century. Among these early restaurateurs was Antoine Beauvilliers, who ran a renowned restaurant in the years prior to and following the French Revolution. This talk will explore the early history of restaurants and showcase materials relating to Beauvilliers’ restaurant and its celebrity chef, including a rare surviving 1802 menu, his two-volume 1814 cookbook, and an 1803 sketch of the experience of eating a meal at the restaurant by an Englishman who frequented it both pre- and post- Revolution.
These monthly lunchtime presentations by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focus on individual works or small archives and collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
Featured image: Title-page vignette, Antoine Beauvilliers, L'Art du Cuisinier (Paris: Pilet, 1814)