David Mintz’s life changed in 1972, in a basement kitchen in Chinatown, where cooks transformed fresh soy milk into soft tofu for neighborhood dim sum parlors. After they determined that the ...

By Sam Roberts The rise of David Mintz from Brooklyn caterer to the multimillionaire ... he attended Brooklyn College, briefly sold mink stoles, and ran a bungalow colony in the Catskills, where ...

(JTA) — David Mintz, who invented the once-popular Tofutti dairy substitute out of a desire to cater to observant Jews who could not mix meat and milk, has died. His death at 89 on Feb. 24 was ...