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Writing a Book on Queer Food Has Freed Me to Cook Again
On finding peace with past lives—including my own.
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The Best Book on Food I Read This Year
Kim Foster’s The Meth Lunches is beautiful, harsh, and unforgettable.
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The Gay Roots of (Ugh) Friendsgiving
AIDS and Queer separatism in the 1980s gave birth to alt-Thanksgiving.
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Anthony Bourdain and Queer Shame
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The Year Queer Food Became My Obsession
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Thinking About Pepper
Listen, children, to what the fiercest spice has to teach.
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This Is Not a Review of Bryan Washington’s "Family Meal"
Call it an appreciation?
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Revenge of the Colonized
In the borderlands, the wheat flour tortilla is a subversion of empire.
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Elizabeth David Made Me Gay
A cuisine of sensory arousal was the taste of my liberation.
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Shopping for Figs with Zombies
A return to San Francisco.
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The Year Queer Food Became My Obsession
What do you cook to feed a noble revolt?
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Time Is a Fat Pink Dick Cake
And Queer food is universal communion.
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Shifting the Food Narrative
Shifting the Food Narrative
Queer and other less orthodox stories of food.
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