What is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.



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, channeling 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 Capo...