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Rendezvous With a Writer: Stephen Fried
Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
GENERAL INFO
Date / Time:
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location:
Museum of the American West at Griffith Park
Appropriate For:
Everyone
Admission:
Free with RSVP
RSVP/Reservations:
323-667-2000 ext. 233
Join us as Stephen Fried discusses his latest book, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. Through his 65 restaurants and lunch counters, 60 dining cars, a dozen large hotels, and major union stations from Chicago to Los Angeles, Fred Harvey controlled what many Americans ate, where they slept, what they bought and wore, even what they thought about their country. Lecture followed by refreshments and book signing.
The Golden Spur Cafe will be serving a special course from the Fred Harvey cookbook the same day. Come hungry!
Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism. He is the author of the highly praised books Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, The New Rabbi, and Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry—Inside the Minds of Married Men.
His new book, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West, will be published on March 23, 2010. Click here for the New York Times review of Appetite for America.
