Nach Waxman, founder of the Manhattan bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, which became a mecca for chefs, cooks, culinary academics, and writers, has died, reports The New York Times. He was 84.
His store was a go-to source for culinary history, customs, and recipes.
“In one instance, Mr. Waxman counseled Citibank on its banquet menu for the Venezuelan finance minister; in another, he found Indigenous recipes from New Guinea for the American Museum of Natural History’s dining room during an exhibition on rain forests,” according to the report.
“He could make helpful recommendations, obtain the very cookbook you needed, search for out-of-print editions and discuss the authors,” said Florence Fabricant, a food and wine writer for The New York Times. Full Story