The Dairy Restaurant

Ben Katchor

may 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrado por Rob Shapiro

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Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat—a history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. He examines the biblical milk-and-meat taboo, the first vegetarian practices, and the invention of the restaurant. Katchor illuminates the historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the development of a “milekhdike (dairy) personality” and the proliferation of dairy restaurants in America, and he recollects his own experiences in many of these iconic restaurants just before they disappeared.

PART OF THE JEWISH ENCOUNTERS SERIES

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BEN KATCHOR is the author of, among other books, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, The Cardboard Valise, and The Jew of New York. He was the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written several works of musical theater--including "The Rosenbach Company" and "The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island." Ben is an Associate Professor in the Illustration program at the Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City, where he lives.