Shifting the Food Narrative

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20th-Century Queer and Queer(-ish) Cookbooks
Part Two: After Stonewall, 1970-2000
Sep 10 • 
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20th-Century Queer(-ish) Cookbooks
Part One: Before Stonewall, 1941-1969
Sep 3 • 
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May 2025

WHO’S AFRAID OF ALICE TOKLAS?
Why I wrote the book that I did.
May 28 • 
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3

February 2025

Jeff Smith and the "Failure of Homosexuality"
The Frugal Gourmet was a bad, bad gay.
Feb 28 • 
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Eggs and Rice, No Champagne
A gay Valentine's story.
Feb 14 • 
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January 2025

Anita Bryant and the Orange Juice Boycott That Changed America
How a breakfast table staple sparked a model for protest in queer communities.
Jan 10 • 
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8

December 2024

What I Took or Did Not Take to the Potluck
Of AIDS and forgetting: A survivor's apology
Dec 20, 2024 • 
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7

November 2024

Of Mussels, Potatoes, and Queer Resistance
Things that grow sweet in the dark.
Nov 13, 2024 • 
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1

September 2024

Succulence
Toward a queer-food praxis of sensuality.
Sep 17, 2024 • 
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Re: Person I Knew
How Steve Silberman made me believe in cookbooks.
Sep 5, 2024 • 
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May 2024

Travel Diary: Oklahoma City Bites
Finding fierce Lao food on the chicken-fried prairie.
May 28, 2024 • 
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Travel Diary: 2 Meals in NYC
Notes from the kiosk.
May 16, 2024 • 
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