Rebecca L. Spang

Rebecca L. Spang is a professor of history at Indiana University. She is the author of The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture and of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution.

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The Revolution Is Under Way Already

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.
- Rebecca L. Spang
- April 5, 2020
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The Death of the American Restaurant

The dining experience is becoming less sociable and more atomized, even as old conceptions of public life wear away.
- Rebecca L. Spang
- December 2, 2018

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