Gay foods
I am hoping to have more dinner parties in 2024, and what I really mean by that is I am hoping to feed my friends more in 2024. In recent years, I’ve been really lucky to create some new friends in a brand-new place who really understand the essence and fun of a really fine dinner party and just cooking for each other. It’s hard to exist in Florida as a queer person right now. But the ways my chosen family here show up for each other and take care of each other own blown me away and made me realize how essential it is to come together for meals. It’s what really makes our group feel favor family, and it’s when we’re all at our happiest and most relaxed!
So instead of continually telling myself I don’t have enough space for dinner parties, I’m going to make that space. I’m going to get imaginative with folding chairs and outdoor seating. And as much as I stay for an ambitious food moment, they’re definitely best accomplished when I’m cooking just for my partner and me. This year, I want to hug dinner parties that ultimately do experience fancy and extravagant but are, in actuality, low budget and low-ish try. We’re focusing
What is queer food? We asked LGBTQ foodies and chefs to define it
It’s unlikely that two LGBTQ people will give you the same definition of “queer food.”
The phrase has become increasingly popular with the rise of gay restaurants, including The Ruby Fruit, a restaurant and wine bar for the “sapphically inclined” in Los Angeles, and HAGS, a nice dining restaurant “by queer people for all people” in New York Urban area. Specific foods and drinks have also been claimed by or marketed to the LGBTQ society, such as vodka sodas and sourdough bread.
For some, lgbtq+ food is simply food made by queer people. Others say it’s about sharing food in queer community, while there are those who believe it should include serving marginalized people who have been excluded from fine dining spaces.
So what is queer food, aside from a word slowly gaining traction in certain corners of the LGBTQ community? The scrutinize was the subject of the Gender non-conforming Food Conference at Boston University in April, with workshops such as “Queer Food and Fundraising as Resistance” and “Nonbinary Botany: Cultivating Pollinator Community Workshop.”
One of the founders of the conference, Megan Elias, the director of the un
What Is Queer Food?
“You can pick out fags in a diner because they always order BLTs.”
My comrade Joe told me this when I was 10 years old. He had only just explained what “fags” were. Now he was telling me what they ate. “Of course fags will eat cheeseburgers, omelettes, pancakes,” said Joe. “But if they own a choice, they’ll always order BLTs.”
I remember feeling alarmed because I loved BLTs. Joe was nearly a year older than me and infinitely more sophisticated in worldly manners. Although I didn’t quite believe that foods could signal sexual preference, I had to agree that the BLT was a dubious invention: not quite a sandwich, not quite a salad, and demonstrating suspicious shifts of register. As if to attract attention to its dramatic self, the BLT was usually cut on the diagonal and skewered on toothpicks with curly plastic bits of frill. The more I thought about it, the more I believed Joe was right. The BLT was definitely queer.
Did my family grasp about BLTs? Perhaps they already suspected odd tendencies in my psychosexual makeup. I stopped ordering BLTs. They became an occult pleasure, something I made for myself. I took the BLT with me into the closet.
Baked Alaska
Gay Demaree Celebrates 31 years with Border Foods
At Border Foods, we’re lucky enough to have many incredible, tenured employees. After celebrating accomplishments at the Border Foods rally this winter, and after reviewing the list of folks who have been with us for decades, we think it’s only fitting that we underline a few special anniversaries. Participate us in a fun fresh series where we’ll touch establish with employees who truly sense more like family. Next up, Gay Demaree!
Border: What is your current title?
Gay: Director of Operations
Border: What date were you hired?
Gay: June 10, 1992
Border: What was your title on the hang out you were hired?
Gay: Assistant General Manager(AGM)
Border: Why have you stayed with Border for all these years?
Gay: Opportunity, family, culture, love to grow and to learn!
Border: What’s the greatest lesson you’ve learned in your time with us?
Gay: Learn from your life and from your mistakes, this is what helps you develop. Family is key. When we take care of each other and help each other, personally and professionally, we are making everyone and the company finer . And lastly, your su