What is queer food?: how we served a revolution

Prologue: The road to Hudson

Part one: The taste of what we could not say, 1896-1948. The language of cake, part one ; Maddalena's pigeons ; Vile fugitive ; Redemption fudge ; Nights at the Mandarin ; Baked in the bedroom ; The sissy prophet of asparagus ; Paper chicken for divas ; The loneliness of rhubarb ; Book of secrets ; "The man among women" ; Ingredient X

Part two: Tables under a partial sky, 1948-1961. Hungry in Paris ; The shape of Bohemia ; The banquette revolution ; Richard tells the truth ; The salvage queen of Fifty-Eighth Street ; The queer education of Miss Lewis ; Soufflés in soup cups ; Brother Ha of Pell Street ; Saturday night function ; Up the goat path

Part three: Cooking in code, 1946-1973. Gen and Lou ; Pleasure en français ; When cookbooks lie ; Farewell to Fire Island ; Strangling the doves ; An edible for Saint Teresa ; Canned camp ; Les chef bros ; The unknown bed

Part four: The rich, audacious tang of liberation, 1973-1986. Richard's dirty salad ; The welcome table ; Learning to cook from Mother ; Fress, darling ; Truman serves lunch ; A fractured timeline of quiche ; A culinary extravaganza ; Ernie and the rainbow cake ; Monday nights at Zuni ; Open house

Epilogue: The queerest food

Acknowledgments

Notes

Sources

Index.