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The dairy restaurant

Title: The dairy restaurant / Ben Katchor.
Author: Katchor, Ben
Publication: New York : Nextbook / Schocken, [2020]

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Description

496 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Jewish encounters

Uniform Title

Jewish encounters.

Subject

Genre/Form

Directories.

Call Number

JFE 21-3097

ISBN

9780805242195
0805242198

LCCN

2019022798

OCLC

1103571693

Author

Katchor, Ben, author.

Title

The dairy restaurant / Ben Katchor.

Publisher

New York : Nextbook / Schocken, [2020]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish encounters

Jewish encounters.

Local Note

HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED WITH B&W DRAWINGS.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3097

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