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 ...

“That’s how a nice Jewish boy learned about tofu,” David Mintz told The Washington ... His father was a baker. Mr. Mintz attended Brooklyn College and later worked in the fur trade.

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 ...

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 first ...