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Shifting the Food Narrative

John Birdsall

Queer and other less orthodox stories of food.

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    Writer on food and queerness, winner of awards. Author of the forthcoming WHAT IS QUEER FOOD? (Norton), as well as THE MAN WHO ATE TOO MUCH: The Life of James Beard (Norton, 2020).

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