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What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution chuckwagon cooking an afternoon of tea andBy John Birdsall (2025) [FROM THE PUBLISHERS] A celebrated culinary writers expansive, audacious excavation of the roots of modern queer identity and food culture. 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, beloved food writer John Birdsall unfolds the complex story of how, through times of fear and persecution, queer people used food to