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David Mintz, R.I.P.
Mar. 11th, 2021 03:24 pmI am not posting while at work; this is my lunch and Internet break, and I will return to do several more hours of examining in the late afternoon and early evening.
That said, I came across the Washington Post’s obituary for David Mintz a few days ago; this isn’t it, but contains some of the same information. I had vaguely thought of Tofutti as the product of some bunch of hippieish people who had gone into business, but it turns out that the late Mr. Mintz, the inventor Tofutti pseudo-ice cream, and other soy-based “dairy” products, was an Orthodox Jew who refused to serve meat and milk products together at his delicatessen, and therefore bought some tofu at a Chinese store, and experimented to make it into imitations of ice cream, cheesecake, sour cream for beef Stroganoff, and so forth.
I’m a vegetarian myself, so I’m interested, and also, this is an example of the connections and twists that lead to new inventions and businesses.
That said, I came across the Washington Post’s obituary for David Mintz a few days ago; this isn’t it, but contains some of the same information. I had vaguely thought of Tofutti as the product of some bunch of hippieish people who had gone into business, but it turns out that the late Mr. Mintz, the inventor Tofutti pseudo-ice cream, and other soy-based “dairy” products, was an Orthodox Jew who refused to serve meat and milk products together at his delicatessen, and therefore bought some tofu at a Chinese store, and experimented to make it into imitations of ice cream, cheesecake, sour cream for beef Stroganoff, and so forth.
I’m a vegetarian myself, so I’m interested, and also, this is an example of the connections and twists that lead to new inventions and businesses.
