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THE 'GAY DIET'
<p>If 'man food' is meat and 'girl food' is salad, what's 'gay food'?</p> * what's a gay man's favorite food *
Wrer John Birdsall (om left), photographer Nik Sharma, rtratr and chef Preeti Mistry talk about the ncept of the "queer kchen" wh Las Volger, the edor of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze. The gatherg was anized by the New York-based gay men's food magaze, Jarry, a twice-yearly prt publitn lnched last fall. The sensibili of this trifecta of closeted gay men had far-reachg fluence, changg the way Amerins oked and ate.
As Birdsall has wrten, "It's food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture — this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin food. " It was this narrowly macho foc that led Birdsall to set the rerd not-so-straight wh Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, his Lucky Peach say that won a Jam Beard Journalism Award 2014. Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyiend readg aloud om Olney's wrgs, feelg like they were gettg a glimpse of a secret gay world — one that was, by necsy, elive.
Mistry, who origally wanted to be a filmmaker, was spired by the chefs' creativy and fearlsns, so much so that she left a job the "gay bubble" of Framele to start trag fe dg at Claridge's London.
FIVE MOST GAY-IENDLY FOOD AND DRK PRODUCTS
It wasn't jt that the women were out, at a time when rtrant kchens uld still be tough plac for women, gay or straight.
A py of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze, next to tote bags that read "Cheers Queers.