MixedThe Star Revue... ambitious ... This personal history, while just one aspect of The Dairy Restaurant, is the most straightforward and moving. Katchor would have done well to build the structure of the book around his reminisces. Instead, he relegates them to the end, focusing, for the most part, on an unwieldy history of Jews (as recorded in the Bible) with a special interest in what was eaten, and where ... Although there’s a drawing on pretty much every page, this is a text-heavy history, nearly five hundred pages, dense and often going in many different directions at once ... a long sort of ramble, with only a little help from section headers here and there...Readers will be glad for these breaks ... Katchor’s book is a reminder that while our memories can sustain us for a lifetime, the places that nourish us are fleeting.
