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"What's the Recipe for a Queer Cookbook," a Physical and Digital Exhibit
Published: 18 August 2021
This exhibit was curated by Dr. Alex Ketchum of the IGSF with special assistance from Jacqueline Lee-Tam. The physical exhibit will be in the hallways of the Leacock Building of 平特五不中 from August 18 - December 20, 2021. The digital exhibit will live on
What is a queer cookbook? Is there a set recipe for what makes a cookbook queer? Is it that the author is queer? Or is there something inherently queer about the cookbook itself? What do Lou Rand Hogan鈥檚聽The Gay Cookbook聽of 1966; the Bloodroot Collective鈥檚聽Political Palate聽of 1980; the Cincinnati Lesbian Activist Bureau鈥檚 1983 cookbook聽Whoever Said Dykes Can鈥檛 Cook?;听The Lesbian Erotic Cookbook聽by Ffiona Morgan Genre (1998); and聽Lesbians Have to Eat, Too!聽by Jenice Armstead (2011) have in common? Does a cookbook published by a global media company and marketed as 鈥渜ueer,鈥� such as Buzzfeed鈥檚聽聽Tasty Pride: 75 Recipes and Stories from the Queer Food Community聽(2020) count as a queer cookbook? This exhibit focused on American and Canadian cookbooks raises these questions.聽
Thank you to Les聽聽and the聽聽for their contributions to the exhibit. Thank you in particular to Simone Beaudry- Pilotte of the AGQ and Laure Neuville of the ALQ for assisting me in locating recipes within your archives.聽