Ben Katchor on his illustrated history The Dairy Restaurant (5/13/20) - a podcast by Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

In his latest graphic novel “The Dairy Restaurant” writer and New Yorker cartoonist 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 also examines the historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the development of a “milekhdike (dairy) personality” and the proliferation of Jewish dairy restaurants in America before they mostly disappeared. Join us for a look at the role that the dairy restaurant has played in America’s culinary landscape in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

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