ATDTDA (12): NY Vegetarian Restaurant

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Let's not forget the NY - kosher - vegetarian connection.  In the 1920s, my grandfather got a summer job as the manager of a kosher vegetarian summer camp.  A poplular dish was vegetarian cutlets (matzoh meal mixed with various nasty pureed vegetables, then baked or fried).  Plenty of kosher vegetarian restaurants around in my decidedly conservative Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood.

Laura

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>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Jul 7, 2007 1:09 PM
>To: Paul Nightingale <isreading at btinternet.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: ATDTDA (12):  NY  Vegetarian Restaurant
>
>Vegetarian Restaurant in New York:  (note the singing)
>
> From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), April 1895, p.93:
>
>     A Vegetarian Restaurant in New York. - New York has at last a 
>vegetarian restaurant. It is under the management of Mrs. L. Volkman, 
>and was opened with some ceremony on February 5th. On the evening of 
>that day there was a vegetarian banquet, at which the Rev. Henry S. 
>Clubb. President of the American Society, Mr. J. W. Scott, President 
>of the New York Society, and some forty or fifty other vegetarians 
>were present. After the banquet, Mr. Scott having congratulated the 
>guests upon the realization of the long-cherished wish for a 
>vegetarian restaurant in New York, introduced Mr. Clubb, who was very 
>cordially received. He read short paper in defence of vegetarianism 
>as taught by Sylvester Graham. Mr. George Brunswick then sang the 
>following song, which he had composed for the occasion, the guests 
>joining heartily in the chorus [ vegetarian song quoted ]
>
>     The event received due notice in the papers the next day, the 
>Press giving a report of the proceedings, and the Commercial 
>Advertiser, not only a report, but a copy of the menu, and some 
>humorous sketches entitled, " Our artist at the vegetarian table 
>d'hôte."
>
> From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), Septemberl 1895, p.270/1:
>
>     "The Vegetarian" (New York). - We have to chronicle the advent of 
>another magazine devoted to the propagation of vegetarianism. The new 
>venture bears the name of The Vegetarian, a rather unfortunate 
>choice, as there is already in existence a magazine of that name, and 
>is published at New York by the Vegetarian Publishing Co. The 
>Vegetarian is published in the cause of vegetarianism all the world 
>over. Its objects are to "call the attention of thinking people to 
>the crime of killing and the disgucting habit of feeding on dead 
>animals, and to prove that animals were not created to be killed, 
>much less to be eaten by civilized man." The first number, dated July 
>15th, is a very creditable production, being interesting and prettily 
>got up.
>
>
>http://www.ivu.org/history/societies/new-york.html
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>
>  THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
>
> From The Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), July 1890, p.194:
>
>     THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. - The 
>World's Fair, which is to be held at Chicago in 1892 (sic, it was 
>1893), is not to be without representatives of Vegetarianism. A 
>correspondent of Food, House, and Garden says:- "I hope that as many 
>of our vice-presidents as can will try and meet one another at a 
>certain specified time. We should doubtless have great pleasure in 
>meeting and obtaining a better knowledge of each other. It would be 
>well if we could secure some home for the reception of our members 
>and securing for them proper food and other necessities. Many 
>stranger might be attracted thereto, and know more of our ways and 
>the manner in which we live." "This idea," adds the editor, "is worth 
>considering. Of course it is and we have been considering and working 
>toward it for some time. We hope the V.S.A. will be so strong by that 
>time that it can have a good Vegetarian restaurant in the principal 
>building of the Fair, and a large hotel secured for its adherents." 
>We trust that there will be some representatives of European 
>Vegetarianism present also at the World's Fair to make acquaintance 
>with its American representatives.
>
>
> From The Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), May 1900, p.141/2:
>
>     "Vegetarian Magazine." - Food, Home and Garden, which the Rev. H. 
>S. Clubb has conducted for ten years, has been incorporated with the 
>Chicago Vegetarian Magazine, which was established three or four 
>years since as the Vegetarian. The Vegetarian Magazine describes 
>itself as "an illustrated magazine of better living, an authority on 
>foods, their selection and preparation," and it "discountenances the 
>use of flesh, fish and fowl for food, upholds the right of life for 
>the whole sentient world, advocates justice, humanitarianism, purity, 
>hygeine, temperance, stands for a stronger body, a healthier 
>mentality, a higher morality." This is a worthy programme. The 
>Vegetarian Magazine shows that Chicago is not given over entirely to 
>slaughter-houses.
>
><http://www.ivu.org/history/societies/vegsoc-america.html>
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>Lots more at:  <http://www.ivu.org/history/societies/usa.html>