James Syhabout

Mar 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | James Syhabout |John Birdsall |Miranda Spivack |Eli Erlick

What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a RevolutionJames Beard Award winner Birdsall (The Man Who Ate Too Much) provides an eye-opening exploration of how food has helped shape “the queer arc of survival” in American life. Moving from the mid-19th century to the early 1990s, he covers how restaurants like the Paper Doll in San Francisco (which opened in 1944 as arguably “the first queer restaurant in America”) demanded “respect for gays, lesbians, and those whose...

Sep 13, 2023 | blog.resy.com | James Syhabout

Discover restaurants to love. Close Close Chef-owner Geoff Davis.