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  • Published: 10 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780805242195
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $59.99

The Dairy Restaurant





From the award-winning author of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Jew of New York: a unique history of a beloved New York culinary institution that emerged in the late 19th century and had all but disappeared by the end of the 20th.

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. Through text and drawings, 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

  • Published: 10 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780805242195
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $59.99
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