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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.
Jan 16
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John Birdsall
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December 2023
The Best Book on Food I Read This Year
Kim Foster’s The Meth Lunches is beautiful, harsh, and unforgettable.
Dec 31, 2023
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John Birdsall
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November 2023
The Gay Roots of (Ugh) Friendsgiving
AIDS and Queer separatism in the 1980s gave birth to alt-Thanksgiving.
Nov 20, 2023
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John Birdsall
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Thinking About Pepper
Listen, children, to what the fiercest spice has to teach.
Nov 10, 2023
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John Birdsall
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October 2023
This Is Not a Review of Bryan Washington’s "Family Meal"
Call it an appreciation?
Oct 27, 2023
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John Birdsall
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Revenge of the Colonized
In the borderlands, the wheat flour tortilla is a subversion of empire.
Oct 20, 2023
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John Birdsall
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Elizabeth David Made Me Gay
A cuisine of sensory arousal was the taste of my liberation.
Oct 13, 2023
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John Birdsall
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Shopping for Figs with Zombies
A return to San Francisco.
Oct 6, 2023
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John Birdsall
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August 2023
The Year Queer Food Became My Obsession
What do you cook to feed a noble revolt?
Aug 5, 2023
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John Birdsall
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July 2023
Time Is a Fat Pink Dick Cake
And Queer food is universal communion.
Jul 14, 2023
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John Birdsall
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June 2023
America, Your Food Is So Gay: The Annotated Version
My queer food classic from 2013, with notes and corrections.
Jun 7, 2023
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John Birdsall
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April 2023
Richard Sax and the Silence of AIDS
The pandemic the food world has never fully acknowledged.
Apr 30, 2023
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John Birdsall
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