https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/dining/queer-food-culture.html
After reading NaNa's post about the commodification of queer identity, I was interested in the possibility of a "queer diet" that it mentions. I looked into queer food culture and found it to be an area of recent activity with many queer chefs currently working to carve out a specific food culture by and for them. One of the people interviewed for this article summed it up as "I think it’s extremely important for queer people, for people of color, for trans people to take up space and create that space for themselves" and one of the the ways to do this, the piece points out, is through restaurants and supper clubs.
Thank you for sharing this piece - such a beautiful celebration of a queer food culture that is coming to the forefront but has clearly always been there! I love this piece on female couples in the restaurant industry, your post made me think of it! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/t-magazine/food/female-chefs-rita-sodi-jody-williams-erika-nakamura.html
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