The next BAI Book Group meeting will take place on Sunday December 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM. We will be discussing the book The Dairy Restaurant by Ben Katchor.
The author 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.
We hope you can join us and please feel free to make recommendations for future reading selections.
