The Dairy Restaurant (Jewish Encounters Series)

About this book

Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eata history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the gardens 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