John Birdsall in Conversation With Jonathan Kauffman

The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and meals, James Beard Award-winning food writer John Birdsall unfolds the complex story of how, through times of fear and persecution, queer people used food to express joy and build community — and ended up changing the shape of the table for everyone. Tracing the evolution of queer food from the early decades of the twentieth century through the LGBTQ civil rights movement of post-Stonewall [...]