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What Is Queer Food?

By John Birdsall

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What Is Queer Food?

By John Birdsall

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Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channelling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses and humming interior lives of James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, Esther Eng and others who left an indelible mark on the culinary world from the margins. Queer food is brunch quiche à la Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney's ecstatic salade composée and Rainbow Ice-Box Cake from Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking. It's the intention surrounding a meal, the circumstances behind it, the people gathered around the table. With cinematic verve and prose that dazzles, What Is Queer Food? is a monumental work: a testament to food's essential link to a modern queerness that reveals how, like fashion or tastes in music, food has become a language of LGBTQ+ identity.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2025-06-03
Publication Date:
2025-06-03
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324073799
ISBN13:
9781324073796
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
458 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
230 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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