{"product_id":"the-dairy-restaurant-isbn-9780805242195","title":"The Dairy Restaurant","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART OF THE JEWISH ENCOUNTERS SERIES\u003c\/b\u003e“Delectable . . . Obsessive, melancholy, and hungry-making . . . This dense cultural and culinary history is reason enough to come to \u003ci\u003eThe Dairy Restaurant.\u003c\/i\u003e But Katchor, who made his name in the 1990s with his weekly comic strip \u003ci\u003eJulius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer,\u003c\/i\u003e and has won a MacArthur fellowship, has a sharp mind and a sly sense of humor. His words and his charcoal-palette drawings have a combinatory intelligence . . . There is a moving memoirish aspect to \u003ci\u003eThe Dairy Restaurant. \u003c\/i\u003eA perambulator, Katchor has always been expert at capturing the texture and sociology of vanishing aspects of city life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“If you’re facing an extended period of self-isolation, it’s a perfect read. Along with its physical heft, The Dairy Restaurant is philosophical and funny, authoritative and questioning, deeply Jewish and almost gleefully iconoclastic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Ben Katchor sees into the life of everything he touches. \u003ci\u003eThe Dairy Restaurant\u003c\/i\u003e is surely his \u003ci\u003ecapolavoro, \u003c\/i\u003ean endless fund of news, digressions, wit, lore.  He is a professor of the wayward fact, the lost particular, the hidden detail. Nothing fails to interest him. I want to sit next to nobody but him on my next international flight.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlexander Theroux, author of \u003ci\u003eDarconville's Cat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Ben Katchor has captured the spirit of old Jewish New York in his graphic novels such as \u003ci\u003eJulius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Jew of New York. The Dairy Restaurant\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t a typical graphic novel, though there is art. Instead it’s a fascinating hybrid format, part history\/philosophy\/rumination, part graphic imagery . . . As in all of Katchor’s books, \u003ci\u003eThe Dairy Restaurant\u003c\/i\u003e lovingly chronicles and restores a vanishing cultural fixture for us. This time, though, he’s added a thick lawyer of scholarship and though-provoking musings. He has served up a very satisfying dish here.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A studiously constructed compendium of narrative history . . . Whoever truly captures the dairy restaurant, captures an entire lost world. That’s what Katchor has tried to do, and no one else could have done it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Colorful anecdotes, trivia, and food lore . . . An informative, nostalgic evocation of a special urban dining experience.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The Dairy Restaurant \u003c\/i\u003ealso has the quality of an illuminated Haggadah. Because Katchor is a wonderful cartoonist, his book can be looked at as well as read. In that sense it is a chronicle of Katchor’s distinctively blocky yet delicate characters, drawn from the Hebrew Bible as well as history . . . A trove of fun facts . . . Like much of Katchor’s work, \u003ci\u003eThe Dairy Restaurant\u003c\/i\u003e is haunted by a sense of the vanished and ephemeral.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Both narrowly targeted and searchingly broad . . . Rewarding . . . This graphic history shows again Katchor’s gimlet eye for curious connections and obsessive attention to detail.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publisher’s Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBEN KATCHOR \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eJulius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; The Cardboard Valise; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Jew of New York.\u003c\/i\u003e He was the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Parsons\/The New School in New York City.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302444355813,"sku":"NP9780805242195","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780805242195.jpg?v=1767738909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-dairy-restaurant-isbn-9780805242195","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}