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Author Katchor, Ben, author.

Title The dairy restaurant / Ben Katchor.

Publication Info. New York : Nextbook / Schocken, [2020]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  641.67 KATCHOR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 496 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Jewish encounters
Jewish encounters.
Summary "For The Dairy Restaurant, Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat--a history that starts with the first man allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy it's fruits.In this brilliant, sui generis book, Ben Katchor illuminates the unique historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the proliferation of the dairy restaurant in New York City. In words and his inimitable drawings, he begins with Adam, entering Eden and eating the fruits therein. He examines ancient protocols for offerings to the gods and the kosher milk-meat taboo. He describes the first vegetarian practice, the development of inns offering food to travelers, the invention of the restaurant, the rise of various food fads, and the intersection between culinary practice and radical politics. Here, too, is an encyclopedic directory of dairy restaurants that once thrived in New York City and its environs, evoked by Katchor's illustrations of classified advertisements, matchbooks, menus, and phone directory listings. And he ends on an elegiac note as he recollects his own experience in one of these unique restaurants just before it disappeared--as have all the dairy restaurants in the New York metropolitan area"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Kosher restaurants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Directories.
Cooking (Dairy products)
Cooking (Dairy products) (OCoLC)fst01753084
Kosher restaurants. (OCoLC)fst00988997
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form Directories. (OCoLC)fst01423796
ISBN 9780805242195 (hardcover)
0805242198 (hardcover)
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