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You can follow Kim on Twitter and Instagram @throughtraveler.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2eb7f890ab19ead33f77fd8554ac4c39?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"food","roles":["contributor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Kim Westerman | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2eb7f890ab19ead33f77fd8554ac4c39?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2eb7f890ab19ead33f77fd8554ac4c39?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/kimwesterman"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"arts","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"bayareabites_122064":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_122064","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"122064","score":null,"sort":[1508975093000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"queer-in-the-kitchen-gender-politics-take-front-stage","title":"Queer in the Kitchen: Gender Politics Take Front Stage","publishDate":1508975093,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Four prominent queer women chefs discuss how their identities shape their work experience, and the challenges facing queer women in the food industry.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent sexual harassment and assault allegations against Hollywood producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\">Harvey Weinstein\u003c/a> have ushered in a crucial moment for women across the nation. Last week, actress Alyssa Milano prompted waves of women to join \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-me-too-campaign-was-created-by-a-black-woman-10-years-ago_us_59e61a7fe4b02a215b336fee\">a decade-old campaign\u003c/a> when she \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/metoo-campaign-shines-light-sexually-harassed-assaulted/story?id=50508897\">invited victims\u003c/a> of sexual harassment and abuse to respond on social media with the words “me too.” Scores of women, including Ellen DeGeneres, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, and congresswoman Gwen Moore have lent their voices to the \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/alyssa-milano-metoo-campaign-vocal-stops/story?id=50582023\">#metoo movement\u003c/a>, which has become an urgent call to action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should know that this is not just happening in Hollywood,” Maroney \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/McKaylaMaroney/status/920548528870400001/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F10%2F18%2Fus%2Fmckayla-maroney-me-too-abuse%2Findex.html\">wrote\u003c/a> on Twitter. “This is happening everywhere. Wherever there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largely dominated by men, the food industry is no exception. Celebrity chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-john-besh-20171023-story.html\">John Besh resigned\u003c/a> yesterday after \u003ca href=\"http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/10/john_besh_restaurants_fostered.html\">bombshell sexual-harassment revelations\u003c/a> were published by the New Orleans \u003cem>Times-Picayune \u003c/em>over the weekend. As Michelle Zunter, a former waitress, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-i-realized-that-my-me-toos-were-too-many-to_us_59e4e623e4b003f928d5e8ca\">wrote\u003c/a>, sexual harassment is routine at many restaurants. But sexism is hardly confined to the front-of-house. Professional kitchens have long been gendered. A disproportionate number of women end up as pastry chefs—a position associated with the sweet, delicate, and refined—while line chefs and executive chefs are almost always men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of top-ranked female chefs in the world remains insignificant, said Jennifer Berg, associate professor of food studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. “It’s barely changed in the last several decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in positions of power in the kitchen are often questioned for their choices. “There’s an element of guilt associated with women in kitchen positions in a way that there isn’t with men,” Berg explained. “She needs to explain and rationalize how she has chosen this career, which is arguably physically demanding, [with] really long hours, unconventional hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queer women setting foot in the culinary world often find themselves in “no man’s land,” Berg explained. They’re often excluded from pastry work, but still discriminated against for being female in the realm of executive chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, anyone who is not a cisgender man can often face difficulties fitting into traditional kitchens. Berg suggests that queer men and trans people may face even greater challenges than queer women, who are often expected to play masculine roles in the kitchen, “even if it’s a performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Berg said LGBTQ women in the food industry bear a unique burden: the expectation of militancy. “Where there’s a LGBTQ chef who identifies as a female, the assumption is she’s going to be an activist, a vegan. The assumption is that she’s going to stand for something,” Berg said. “It’s such an unrealistic expectation, and an unfair vantage point to put someone in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Eats spoke with four prominent queer women chefs about how their identities have shaped their experience in the industry. Their reflections shed light on the breadth of experiences facing queer women in the culinary sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preeti Mistry\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Oakland, California\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Mistry and her wife Ann Nadeau own sister restaurants Juhu Beach and Navi Kitchen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Mistry\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122070\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preeti Mistry \u003ccite>(Alanna Hale)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first fine dining kitchen that I worked in was the Sugar Club, and I was the only woman in the kitchen. Everyone’s first assumption was that I wasn’t going to carry my own weight. My immediate response to that was, “Okay, I’ll take the hardest job.” I’d come in a half hour before my shift just to clean the fryer. I’d clean the hood and the filters at the end of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, I did experience a certain amount of masculine privilege, and I have throughout my career as a line cook, in that I can very easily be seen as one of the guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re not checking out my ass, they’re not trying to flirt with me. They can very easily even forget that I’m actually female. My sous-chef would be like, “You’re such a dude.” And he meant it as a compliment. That’s how most of the guys saw me.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Myth of Diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Just cause you have a Mexican dishwasher doesn’t mean your industry is diverse. Who’s in charge? Who owns the restaurants? Whose name is on the door? Who’s getting the promotions? Who’s being seen and getting taken under the wing of the chef? By and large, that’s still straight white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My kitchens are kind of like \u003ca href=\"https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-opposite-day-january-25/\">Opposite Day\u003c/a>. There’s a lot more diversity ethnically, racially, and in terms of gender and sexual orientation. It’s incredibly intentional. Some of the people who are more used to a traditional restaurant environment don’t last in my kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of chefs and restaurateurs say, “The kitchen’s just the kitchen. That person just needs to get a thicker skin and get over it.” They would rather [respond that way] to a gender-nonconforming person or that woman who’s experiencing sexual harassment, than just say to the macho line cooks: “Hey, fucking quit it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>An Evolving Identity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I identify as a lesbian, and also as queer and gender-nonbinary. When I came out in 1994, I had no idea what trans or gender-nonbinary was. Living in San Francisco, I immediately identified with what I saw around me, which was this term \u003cem>butch lesbian\u003c/em>. That was where I felt I belonged. But I also knew that when I was four years old, I had insisted to everyone that I was a boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ‘90s, early 2000s, all my friends started transitioning and becoming guys. I struggled with that for a couple years, trying to decide if that was the right path for me. I think at some point, I realized just because I identify as female and use the pronouns \u003cem>she\u003c/em> and \u003cem>her\u003c/em> doesn’t mean that I have to be this feminine person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I still identify really strongly with my trans male friends. I share their experience every day when I walk into a public restroom or I’m in an airport security line. I am part of that larger family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our new restaurant, Navi Kitchen, has a lot of social justice artwork. My wife got this beautiful piece of artwork that’s on the door to our bathroom and it says, “Your gender is beautiful.” I cried when she showed it to me. Because I don’t think people really understand how challenging it is every day for people who are not cisgendered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elise Kornack\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Ulster County, New York\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Kornack and her wife, Anna Hieronimus, owned—and were the sole employees of—the acclaimed Brooklyn twelve-seater, Take Root, for four years, until it closed earlier this year\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack.jpg\" alt=\"Elise Kornack\" width=\"700\" height=\"712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122069\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-160x163.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-240x244.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-375x381.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-520x529.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elise Kornack \u003ccite>(Daniel Krieger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I worked at five restaurants prior to opening Take Root. Then my wife and I moved to Brooklyn, and it became clear to us that we wanted to do our own thing creatively. The experiences I had in other kitchens prepped me for the experiences with customers at Take Root—but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our restaurant, I was interacting with customers on a very personal level. Our relationship was on the forefront of everything, and that became very difficult, to say the least. We were putting ourselves out there very publicly. And so we were very vulnerable to people’s ignorance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Marriage on Display\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>One time, there was a family that came to eat at the restaurant with two younger kids. When it became clear that my wife and I were married—and that we’d be serving them and cooking—it was very obvious it made them uncomfortable. They ended up deciding to get up and leave. I recall feeling disappointed that I didn’t have the guts to say something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, we had incredible diners. I feel very lucky that most of them were not only accepting of our relationship but celebrated it. But there were one or two occasions when heterosexual men hit on my wife, not knowing that we were married. There were people who asked if we were sisters or roommates, never expecting that we were wives. People messed up my gender multiple times, and asked my wife if I was her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their reactions, their tone, and the way they asked the questions seemed extremely off-putting and very offensive, especially because most diners don’t ask their servers personal questions in the way they were asking us. There were a lot of situations that felt very invasive, and we did not feel that these things would’ve ever happened if we were a straight couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was very difficult to not let those things seep into our relationship. The biggest challenge was watching each other feel bad at work, or be mistreated, and not be able to defend each other, because we were in a professional setting. But it never made us question our relationship or who we were.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Navigating a Shifting Identity in the Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When I first started in the industry in college, I was comfortable telling people I was close to that I was gay, but I did not tell everybody. I wasn’t as masculinely presenting as I am now. I realized I was more at risk of being treated the way that other women are treated [in restaurants] because of how I was presenting myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I became more comfortable with myself and wanting to look the way I felt inside in terms of feeling more masculine than feminine, I saw how people treated me differently. The men in the kitchen felt a little bit more of a sense of camaraderie. I didn’t have to fear being hit on or treated in a sexual way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deborah VanTrece\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef VanTrece is the owner and executive chef at Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah VanTrece\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah VanTrece \u003ccite>(Matthew Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think being queer and being African-American comes with a lot of responsibility in the culinary arena. I don’t look like a lot of the other chefs. I am often the only one of this identity in a room, and it can be quite lonely sometimes. But I remember that I have been blessed. I represent those who haven’t made it yet and I have a responsibility to represent them well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I dated a woman, I hid it from my friends, my family, and definitely from my clients. I owned a restaurant back then called Edible Art. I had some very high-profile clients. I didn’t want them to say, “Oh no, I don’t want her food,” or look at me weird. One day, it dawned on me that I was doing this person who I cared about, who was out, an injustice by not letting people know we were in a relationship. I felt that if people couldn’t accept me for the person that I was—I was still the same person with the same talent—then I didn’t need to do business with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Pressure to Defy Stereotypes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I first identify as a human being. I am a woman married to a woman, so most people consider me a lesbian. I was originally married to a man and grew out of him. I believe love comes in all forms. I don’t have a lot of use for labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to get away from some of the stereotypes—that’s a big pressure for me. I don’t present myself as a butch woman, but there is that stereotype that women in the kitchen [should be] masculine. If you’re strong and you run a tight kitchen, the assumption is either you’re butch, or you’re a bitch. I’d rather be called efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of things are said behind my back. Sometimes I forget, but reality will snap me back every now and then. There are people out there who want to know, “How can she be as good as they say she is if she’s a Black lesbian?” At the end of the day, all I want to be is a great chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>A “Man’s Profession”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As a chef, the problem is not as much being African-American or being a lesbian. It’s being female, period. In all male-dominated industries, the women have to deal with sexual innuendos and comments. As a lesbian, I don’t hear it as much, but I still hear it. I hear from men who say they’re going to “turn” me [straight].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up with my mom and my grandma cooking. They could tote and lift heavy amounts of food. So I’m not quite sure how, all of a sudden, it’s a man’s profession. When it comes to getting paid for it, cooking becomes a man’s profession that we women can’t handle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karen Akunowicz\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Boston, Massachusetts\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Akunowicz is a partner and executive chef at Myers + Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Akunowicz\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1398\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122068\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-800x932.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-768x895.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-1020x1188.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-1180x1375.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-960x1118.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-240x280.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-375x437.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-520x606.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Akunowicz \u003ccite>(Matt Kurkowski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was on Top Chef, it was an important moment for me not only to be out, but to be clear and vocal about being a queer woman. I talked about my spouse, who identifies as genderqueer, and used gender neutral pronouns when talking about them. I felt that it was an opportunity to bring that to a mainstream audience and to speak to another part of the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>An \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Invisible\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Identity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I identify as a queer fierce femme, which to me, is an important part of my personal, political, and gender identity. Using the term \u003cem>femme\u003c/em> is an important verbal way of making an often invisible community visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding femme helped me begin to understand my queer femininity. Femme identity is not especially rooted in physical appearance. Although my outward appearance is important and purposeful. I express my inner femme with outward signifiers: pink hair, boots, winged eyeliner, stilettos, fascinators, and a modern pin-up aesthetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Femmes can carry the markers of what is most often associated with straight femininity, so our queerness is often ignored. If I don’t intentionally come out as gay to the barista at my coffee shop, my hairdresser, the person interviewing me, or new staff members, the assumption is that I’m interested in attracting and sleeping with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can remember always being assumed straight, and feeling invisible in the gay community. But things are really different now. Now I have a community of badass femme friends, as well as people who love, support, and value the femmes in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Biggest Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Sexism still exists. Plain and simple. Most of us who are female and working as chefs put our heads down, work hard, and don’t look back. But the fact that we choose to ignore it and persist does not change the fact that it exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was recently cooking at an event, and when a male friend and colleague and I arrived at the space, the person in charge addressed my friend as “Chef” and me as “young lady.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of flexibility, combined with almost nonexistent family leave policies, makes being a chef a seemingly impossible job for women who want to work and have children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are all sorts of problems for women in the restaurant industry, but the most destructive aspect surrounds pregnancy. This is an issue that affects women working in virtually every position within the restaurant world, from a fast casual waitress to line cooks.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Four prominent queer women chefs discuss how their identities shape their work experience, and the challenges facing queer women in the food industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1508975093,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":2784},"headData":{"title":"Queer in the Kitchen: Gender Politics Take Front Stage | KQED","description":"Four prominent queer women chefs discuss how their identities shape their work experience, and the challenges facing queer women in the food industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Queer in the Kitchen: Gender Politics Take Front Stage","datePublished":"2017-10-25T23:44:53.000Z","dateModified":"2017-10-25T23:44:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"122064 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=122064","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/10/25/queer-in-the-kitchen-gender-politics-take-front-stage/","disqusTitle":"Queer in the Kitchen: Gender Politics Take Front Stage","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/author/chuang/\">Christine Huang,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/civileat/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/122064/queer-in-the-kitchen-gender-politics-take-front-stage","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Four prominent queer women chefs discuss how their identities shape their work experience, and the challenges facing queer women in the food industry.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent sexual harassment and assault allegations against Hollywood producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\">Harvey Weinstein\u003c/a> have ushered in a crucial moment for women across the nation. Last week, actress Alyssa Milano prompted waves of women to join \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-me-too-campaign-was-created-by-a-black-woman-10-years-ago_us_59e61a7fe4b02a215b336fee\">a decade-old campaign\u003c/a> when she \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/metoo-campaign-shines-light-sexually-harassed-assaulted/story?id=50508897\">invited victims\u003c/a> of sexual harassment and abuse to respond on social media with the words “me too.” Scores of women, including Ellen DeGeneres, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, and congresswoman Gwen Moore have lent their voices to the \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/alyssa-milano-metoo-campaign-vocal-stops/story?id=50582023\">#metoo movement\u003c/a>, which has become an urgent call to action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should know that this is not just happening in Hollywood,” Maroney \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/McKaylaMaroney/status/920548528870400001/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F10%2F18%2Fus%2Fmckayla-maroney-me-too-abuse%2Findex.html\">wrote\u003c/a> on Twitter. “This is happening everywhere. Wherever there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largely dominated by men, the food industry is no exception. Celebrity chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-john-besh-20171023-story.html\">John Besh resigned\u003c/a> yesterday after \u003ca href=\"http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/10/john_besh_restaurants_fostered.html\">bombshell sexual-harassment revelations\u003c/a> were published by the New Orleans \u003cem>Times-Picayune \u003c/em>over the weekend. As Michelle Zunter, a former waitress, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-i-realized-that-my-me-toos-were-too-many-to_us_59e4e623e4b003f928d5e8ca\">wrote\u003c/a>, sexual harassment is routine at many restaurants. But sexism is hardly confined to the front-of-house. Professional kitchens have long been gendered. A disproportionate number of women end up as pastry chefs—a position associated with the sweet, delicate, and refined—while line chefs and executive chefs are almost always men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of top-ranked female chefs in the world remains insignificant, said Jennifer Berg, associate professor of food studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. “It’s barely changed in the last several decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in positions of power in the kitchen are often questioned for their choices. “There’s an element of guilt associated with women in kitchen positions in a way that there isn’t with men,” Berg explained. “She needs to explain and rationalize how she has chosen this career, which is arguably physically demanding, [with] really long hours, unconventional hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queer women setting foot in the culinary world often find themselves in “no man’s land,” Berg explained. They’re often excluded from pastry work, but still discriminated against for being female in the realm of executive chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, anyone who is not a cisgender man can often face difficulties fitting into traditional kitchens. Berg suggests that queer men and trans people may face even greater challenges than queer women, who are often expected to play masculine roles in the kitchen, “even if it’s a performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Berg said LGBTQ women in the food industry bear a unique burden: the expectation of militancy. “Where there’s a LGBTQ chef who identifies as a female, the assumption is she’s going to be an activist, a vegan. The assumption is that she’s going to stand for something,” Berg said. “It’s such an unrealistic expectation, and an unfair vantage point to put someone in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Eats spoke with four prominent queer women chefs about how their identities have shaped their experience in the industry. Their reflections shed light on the breadth of experiences facing queer women in the culinary sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preeti Mistry\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Oakland, California\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Mistry and her wife Ann Nadeau own sister restaurants Juhu Beach and Navi Kitchen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Mistry\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122070\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-mistry-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preeti Mistry \u003ccite>(Alanna Hale)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first fine dining kitchen that I worked in was the Sugar Club, and I was the only woman in the kitchen. Everyone’s first assumption was that I wasn’t going to carry my own weight. My immediate response to that was, “Okay, I’ll take the hardest job.” I’d come in a half hour before my shift just to clean the fryer. I’d clean the hood and the filters at the end of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, I did experience a certain amount of masculine privilege, and I have throughout my career as a line cook, in that I can very easily be seen as one of the guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re not checking out my ass, they’re not trying to flirt with me. They can very easily even forget that I’m actually female. My sous-chef would be like, “You’re such a dude.” And he meant it as a compliment. That’s how most of the guys saw me.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Myth of Diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Just cause you have a Mexican dishwasher doesn’t mean your industry is diverse. Who’s in charge? Who owns the restaurants? Whose name is on the door? Who’s getting the promotions? Who’s being seen and getting taken under the wing of the chef? By and large, that’s still straight white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My kitchens are kind of like \u003ca href=\"https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-opposite-day-january-25/\">Opposite Day\u003c/a>. There’s a lot more diversity ethnically, racially, and in terms of gender and sexual orientation. It’s incredibly intentional. Some of the people who are more used to a traditional restaurant environment don’t last in my kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of chefs and restaurateurs say, “The kitchen’s just the kitchen. That person just needs to get a thicker skin and get over it.” They would rather [respond that way] to a gender-nonconforming person or that woman who’s experiencing sexual harassment, than just say to the macho line cooks: “Hey, fucking quit it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>An Evolving Identity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I identify as a lesbian, and also as queer and gender-nonbinary. When I came out in 1994, I had no idea what trans or gender-nonbinary was. Living in San Francisco, I immediately identified with what I saw around me, which was this term \u003cem>butch lesbian\u003c/em>. That was where I felt I belonged. But I also knew that when I was four years old, I had insisted to everyone that I was a boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ‘90s, early 2000s, all my friends started transitioning and becoming guys. I struggled with that for a couple years, trying to decide if that was the right path for me. I think at some point, I realized just because I identify as female and use the pronouns \u003cem>she\u003c/em> and \u003cem>her\u003c/em> doesn’t mean that I have to be this feminine person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I still identify really strongly with my trans male friends. I share their experience every day when I walk into a public restroom or I’m in an airport security line. I am part of that larger family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our new restaurant, Navi Kitchen, has a lot of social justice artwork. My wife got this beautiful piece of artwork that’s on the door to our bathroom and it says, “Your gender is beautiful.” I cried when she showed it to me. Because I don’t think people really understand how challenging it is every day for people who are not cisgendered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elise Kornack\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Ulster County, New York\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Kornack and her wife, Anna Hieronimus, owned—and were the sole employees of—the acclaimed Brooklyn twelve-seater, Take Root, for four years, until it closed earlier this year\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack.jpg\" alt=\"Elise Kornack\" width=\"700\" height=\"712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122069\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-160x163.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-240x244.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-375x381.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-520x529.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-kornack-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elise Kornack \u003ccite>(Daniel Krieger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I worked at five restaurants prior to opening Take Root. Then my wife and I moved to Brooklyn, and it became clear to us that we wanted to do our own thing creatively. The experiences I had in other kitchens prepped me for the experiences with customers at Take Root—but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our restaurant, I was interacting with customers on a very personal level. Our relationship was on the forefront of everything, and that became very difficult, to say the least. We were putting ourselves out there very publicly. And so we were very vulnerable to people’s ignorance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Marriage on Display\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>One time, there was a family that came to eat at the restaurant with two younger kids. When it became clear that my wife and I were married—and that we’d be serving them and cooking—it was very obvious it made them uncomfortable. They ended up deciding to get up and leave. I recall feeling disappointed that I didn’t have the guts to say something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, we had incredible diners. I feel very lucky that most of them were not only accepting of our relationship but celebrated it. But there were one or two occasions when heterosexual men hit on my wife, not knowing that we were married. There were people who asked if we were sisters or roommates, never expecting that we were wives. People messed up my gender multiple times, and asked my wife if I was her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their reactions, their tone, and the way they asked the questions seemed extremely off-putting and very offensive, especially because most diners don’t ask their servers personal questions in the way they were asking us. There were a lot of situations that felt very invasive, and we did not feel that these things would’ve ever happened if we were a straight couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was very difficult to not let those things seep into our relationship. The biggest challenge was watching each other feel bad at work, or be mistreated, and not be able to defend each other, because we were in a professional setting. But it never made us question our relationship or who we were.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Navigating a Shifting Identity in the Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When I first started in the industry in college, I was comfortable telling people I was close to that I was gay, but I did not tell everybody. I wasn’t as masculinely presenting as I am now. I realized I was more at risk of being treated the way that other women are treated [in restaurants] because of how I was presenting myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I became more comfortable with myself and wanting to look the way I felt inside in terms of feeling more masculine than feminine, I saw how people treated me differently. The men in the kitchen felt a little bit more of a sense of camaraderie. I didn’t have to fear being hit on or treated in a sexual way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deborah VanTrece\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef VanTrece is the owner and executive chef at Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah VanTrece\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-van-trece-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah VanTrece \u003ccite>(Matthew Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think being queer and being African-American comes with a lot of responsibility in the culinary arena. I don’t look like a lot of the other chefs. I am often the only one of this identity in a room, and it can be quite lonely sometimes. But I remember that I have been blessed. I represent those who haven’t made it yet and I have a responsibility to represent them well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I dated a woman, I hid it from my friends, my family, and definitely from my clients. I owned a restaurant back then called Edible Art. I had some very high-profile clients. I didn’t want them to say, “Oh no, I don’t want her food,” or look at me weird. One day, it dawned on me that I was doing this person who I cared about, who was out, an injustice by not letting people know we were in a relationship. I felt that if people couldn’t accept me for the person that I was—I was still the same person with the same talent—then I didn’t need to do business with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Pressure to Defy Stereotypes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I first identify as a human being. I am a woman married to a woman, so most people consider me a lesbian. I was originally married to a man and grew out of him. I believe love comes in all forms. I don’t have a lot of use for labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to get away from some of the stereotypes—that’s a big pressure for me. I don’t present myself as a butch woman, but there is that stereotype that women in the kitchen [should be] masculine. If you’re strong and you run a tight kitchen, the assumption is either you’re butch, or you’re a bitch. I’d rather be called efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of things are said behind my back. Sometimes I forget, but reality will snap me back every now and then. There are people out there who want to know, “How can she be as good as they say she is if she’s a Black lesbian?” At the end of the day, all I want to be is a great chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>A “Man’s Profession”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As a chef, the problem is not as much being African-American or being a lesbian. It’s being female, period. In all male-dominated industries, the women have to deal with sexual innuendos and comments. As a lesbian, I don’t hear it as much, but I still hear it. I hear from men who say they’re going to “turn” me [straight].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up with my mom and my grandma cooking. They could tote and lift heavy amounts of food. So I’m not quite sure how, all of a sudden, it’s a man’s profession. When it comes to getting paid for it, cooking becomes a man’s profession that we women can’t handle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karen Akunowicz\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Boston, Massachusetts\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Akunowicz is a partner and executive chef at Myers + Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Akunowicz\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1398\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122068\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-800x932.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-768x895.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-1020x1188.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-1180x1375.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-960x1118.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-240x280.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-375x437.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/171023-queer-women-chefs-akunowicz-520x606.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Akunowicz \u003ccite>(Matt Kurkowski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was on Top Chef, it was an important moment for me not only to be out, but to be clear and vocal about being a queer woman. I talked about my spouse, who identifies as genderqueer, and used gender neutral pronouns when talking about them. I felt that it was an opportunity to bring that to a mainstream audience and to speak to another part of the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>An \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Invisible\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Identity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>I identify as a queer fierce femme, which to me, is an important part of my personal, political, and gender identity. Using the term \u003cem>femme\u003c/em> is an important verbal way of making an often invisible community visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding femme helped me begin to understand my queer femininity. Femme identity is not especially rooted in physical appearance. Although my outward appearance is important and purposeful. I express my inner femme with outward signifiers: pink hair, boots, winged eyeliner, stilettos, fascinators, and a modern pin-up aesthetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Femmes can carry the markers of what is most often associated with straight femininity, so our queerness is often ignored. If I don’t intentionally come out as gay to the barista at my coffee shop, my hairdresser, the person interviewing me, or new staff members, the assumption is that I’m interested in attracting and sleeping with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can remember always being assumed straight, and feeling invisible in the gay community. But things are really different now. Now I have a community of badass femme friends, as well as people who love, support, and value the femmes in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>The Biggest Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Sexism still exists. Plain and simple. Most of us who are female and working as chefs put our heads down, work hard, and don’t look back. But the fact that we choose to ignore it and persist does not change the fact that it exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was recently cooking at an event, and when a male friend and colleague and I arrived at the space, the person in charge addressed my friend as “Chef” and me as “young lady.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of flexibility, combined with almost nonexistent family leave policies, makes being a chef a seemingly impossible job for women who want to work and have children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are all sorts of problems for women in the restaurant industry, but the most destructive aspect surrounds pregnancy. This is an issue that affects women working in virtually every position within the restaurant world, from a fast casual waitress to line cooks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/122064/queer-in-the-kitchen-gender-politics-take-front-stage","authors":["byline_bayareabites_122064"],"categories":["bayareabites_63","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_2328","bayareabites_8485","bayareabites_2329","bayareabites_10541"],"featImg":"bayareabites_122072","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_118191":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_118191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"118191","score":null,"sort":[1497487391000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"queers-makin-beers-homebrew-group-builds-lgbt-community","title":"Queers Makin’ Beers Homebrew Group Builds LGBT Community","publishDate":1497487391,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Two years ago, Rebecca Sandidge, a Ph.D. student in Entomology at UC Berkeley and a longtime surfer, attended a homebrewers meetup in San Francisco, but only one other person showed up. Engineer Kate Summerhill happened, like Rebecca, to be a Bay Area transplant from Florida, as well as queer. They hit it off and, soon thereafter, \u003ca href=\"http://queersmakinbeers.com/\">Queers Makin’ Beers\u003c/a> (QMB) was born in Sandidge’s Oakland backyard. The group now has more than 500 members across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Group members hanging out during a brew day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118202\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group members hanging out during a brew day. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are many events scheduled throughout the year, QMB’s main focus is on brew days, which are open to everyone who is queer-identified. Most of the core group members are women, and Sandidge muses that perhaps this is because it’s more of an educational gathering than a bar scene—these are science geeks experimenting with everything from IPAs to milk stouts, with a seriousness deeper than the average consumer of beer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Summerhill and her little red beer wagon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Summerhill and her little red beer wagon. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say the meetups aren’t social. In fact, there’s a lot of time to shoot the breeze while the six- to seven-hour process of brewing unfolds. I attended a recent weekend brew, along with my wife and kids, and hung out with about 10 other brewers, ranging from very experienced to total newbie. The atmosphere was super-casual and welcoming, but with a connoisseur’s eye toward the craft of brewing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was beer, of course, in this case, a lager that hadn’t yet been lagered, or aged. This was the first time I’d encountered the word “lager” as a verb, and Sandidge explained that it means “to store” in German, but is now commonly applied to beer as a noun. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Sandidge checks the water temperature before pouring in grist.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Sandidge checks the water temperature before pouring in grist. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The grist is poured into the water to create the mash.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118203\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grist is poured into the water to create the mash. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The mash is brought to a controlled boil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mash is brought to a controlled boil. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The typical sequence on brew days is that Sandidge, Summerhill and other experienced brewers start setting up early, first by boiling a big vat of water into which the grist (a mixture of malt and various grains) is poured to start the mash conversion. The enzymes in the malt convert the starches to sugars over a period of 45 minutes to an hour, then the liquid is poured off and brought to a controlled boil, at which time hops are added. Fermentation is the next step, in which any remaining particles are removed and yeast is added. Yeast converts the sugar into alcohol and, depending on the type of recipe, the beer then matures from one to six weeks. Most brewers combine the primary fermentation with a second fermentation after bottling, again, depending on the style of beer desired. Lighter beers typically require a shorter fermentation process, while darker beers take more time to develop. The final step is to filter and carbonate the beer, and then rest it for as long as you like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this whole meandering process, people come and go. At the last brew, Summerhill managed the grill—hot dogs (with a veggie option) and grilled peppers—and Sandidge set up a table with logo merchandise, including glassware and t-shirts she designs and prints herself, as well as a donation jar and a raffle for a homebrewing kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Summerhill grills up hot dogs for the group.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summerhill grills up hot dogs for the group. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Why beer?” is clear, but why queer? The mission is straightforward: to address the need for experiential, educational spaces free of racism, misogyny, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, and judgment. It’s designed for the queer-identified, but anyone who rejects the prevalence of heteronormativity is welcome. As Sandidge adds, “Making good beer is a radical and empowering act,” so it stands to reason that one of the outcomes of this group is to empower the marginalized and create space in which this community can flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queers Makin’ Beers is trying to grow its reach by offering support to new chapters, as well as continue its work in brewing education. QMB’s fundraising campaign is trending now on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/queersmakinbeers\">GoFundMe\u003c/a>, and they’d like to raise $15k by the end of June, which, perhaps not coincidentally, is LGBTQ Pride Month. So, raise a pint glass to these queer-beer-pioneers, and celebrate the diversity in our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/kFoUjia7uvY\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Website:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://queersmakinbeers.com/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/QueersMakinBeers/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Instagram:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queers_makin_beers/\">queers_makin_beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Meetup Page:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Queers-Makin-Beers/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Celebrate Pride during June, and learn how to make your own beer this summer.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1508268411,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":785},"headData":{"title":"Queers Makin’ Beers Homebrew Group Builds LGBT Community | KQED","description":"Celebrate Pride during June, and learn how to make your own beer this summer.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Queers Makin’ Beers Homebrew Group Builds LGBT Community","datePublished":"2017-06-15T00:43:11.000Z","dateModified":"2017-10-17T19:26:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"118191 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=118191","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/06/14/queers-makin-beers-homebrew-group-builds-lgbt-community/","disqusTitle":"Queers Makin’ Beers Homebrew Group Builds LGBT Community","source":"DIY, Foraging, Urban Homesteading","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/diy-and-urban-homesteading/","path":"/bayareabites/118191/queers-makin-beers-homebrew-group-builds-lgbt-community","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two years ago, Rebecca Sandidge, a Ph.D. student in Entomology at UC Berkeley and a longtime surfer, attended a homebrewers meetup in San Francisco, but only one other person showed up. Engineer Kate Summerhill happened, like Rebecca, to be a Bay Area transplant from Florida, as well as queer. They hit it off and, soon thereafter, \u003ca href=\"http://queersmakinbeers.com/\">Queers Makin’ Beers\u003c/a> (QMB) was born in Sandidge’s Oakland backyard. The group now has more than 500 members across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Group members hanging out during a brew day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118202\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/hanging-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group members hanging out during a brew day. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are many events scheduled throughout the year, QMB’s main focus is on brew days, which are open to everyone who is queer-identified. Most of the core group members are women, and Sandidge muses that perhaps this is because it’s more of an educational gathering than a bar scene—these are science geeks experimenting with everything from IPAs to milk stouts, with a seriousness deeper than the average consumer of beer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Summerhill and her little red beer wagon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/wagon-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Summerhill and her little red beer wagon. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say the meetups aren’t social. In fact, there’s a lot of time to shoot the breeze while the six- to seven-hour process of brewing unfolds. I attended a recent weekend brew, along with my wife and kids, and hung out with about 10 other brewers, ranging from very experienced to total newbie. The atmosphere was super-casual and welcoming, but with a connoisseur’s eye toward the craft of brewing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was beer, of course, in this case, a lager that hadn’t yet been lagered, or aged. This was the first time I’d encountered the word “lager” as a verb, and Sandidge explained that it means “to store” in German, but is now commonly applied to beer as a noun. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Sandidge checks the water temperature before pouring in grist.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_temp-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Sandidge checks the water temperature before pouring in grist. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The grist is poured into the water to create the mash.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118203\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/pouring-in-grist-NEW-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grist is poured into the water to create the mash. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The mash is brought to a controlled boil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/checking_mash-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mash is brought to a controlled boil. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The typical sequence on brew days is that Sandidge, Summerhill and other experienced brewers start setting up early, first by boiling a big vat of water into which the grist (a mixture of malt and various grains) is poured to start the mash conversion. The enzymes in the malt convert the starches to sugars over a period of 45 minutes to an hour, then the liquid is poured off and brought to a controlled boil, at which time hops are added. Fermentation is the next step, in which any remaining particles are removed and yeast is added. Yeast converts the sugar into alcohol and, depending on the type of recipe, the beer then matures from one to six weeks. Most brewers combine the primary fermentation with a second fermentation after bottling, again, depending on the style of beer desired. Lighter beers typically require a shorter fermentation process, while darker beers take more time to develop. The final step is to filter and carbonate the beer, and then rest it for as long as you like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this whole meandering process, people come and go. At the last brew, Summerhill managed the grill—hot dogs (with a veggie option) and grilled peppers—and Sandidge set up a table with logo merchandise, including glassware and t-shirts she designs and prints herself, as well as a donation jar and a raffle for a homebrewing kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Summerhill grills up hot dogs for the group.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/grill-NEW-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summerhill grills up hot dogs for the group. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Why beer?” is clear, but why queer? The mission is straightforward: to address the need for experiential, educational spaces free of racism, misogyny, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, and judgment. It’s designed for the queer-identified, but anyone who rejects the prevalence of heteronormativity is welcome. As Sandidge adds, “Making good beer is a radical and empowering act,” so it stands to reason that one of the outcomes of this group is to empower the marginalized and create space in which this community can flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queers Makin’ Beers is trying to grow its reach by offering support to new chapters, as well as continue its work in brewing education. QMB’s fundraising campaign is trending now on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/queersmakinbeers\">GoFundMe\u003c/a>, and they’d like to raise $15k by the end of June, which, perhaps not coincidentally, is LGBTQ Pride Month. So, raise a pint glass to these queer-beer-pioneers, and celebrate the diversity in our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/kFoUjia7uvY\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Website:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://queersmakinbeers.com/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/QueersMakinBeers/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Instagram:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queers_makin_beers/\">queers_makin_beers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Meetup Page:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Queers-Makin-Beers/\">Queers Makin' Beers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/118191/queers-makin-beers-homebrew-group-builds-lgbt-community","authors":["5575"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_301","bayareabites_13306","bayareabites_64","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_14753","bayareabites_9445","bayareabites_10541"],"featImg":"bayareabites_118200","label":"source_bayareabites_118191"},"bayareabites_110349":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_110349","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"110349","score":null,"sort":[1467069345000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-the-queer-kitchen-a-conversation-with-john-birdsall-preeti-mistry-and-nik-sharma","title":"In the Queer Kitchen: A Conversation with John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma","publishDate":1467069345,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>What is a queer kitchen? Is there a recognizable queer style or sensibility that can be expressed through food? Can non-gay chefs queer their food? As the rainbow-stickered crowds in booty shorts and body glitter surged through Dolores Park and Civic Center on a sunny Saturday afternoon, a rather more sedate audience of thirty gathered upstairs at Williams Sonoma's flagship store in Union Square to listen to a discussion of these questions and more. The conversation was the first San Francisco event organized by the New York-based gay men's food magazine \u003ca href=\"http://www.jarrymag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jarry\u003c/a>, a twice-yearly print publication that launched (thanks in part to a Kickstarter campaign) in the fall of 2015. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new.jpg\" alt=\"Jarry issue 2 and tote bags.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarry issue 2 and tote bags. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to moderator (and Jarry co-founder/editor) Lukas Volger, the idea of the \"queer kitchen\"--as opposed to \"gay food\"--seemed both more inclusive and more contemporary, at a time when few, if any, restaurants would position themselves as catering to an exclusively gay clientele. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer and former chef John Birdsall is a firm believer that there is a queer aesthetic in food, with its roots in the work of Craig Claiborne, James Beard, and ex-pat Richard Olney, a trifecta of closeted gay men whose sensibilities and far-reaching influence changed the way Americans cooked. It's a legacy that Birdsall thinks more people--especially straight chefs--should acknowledge. \"I love \u003ca href=\"http://luckypeach.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Peach\u003c/a> [magazine],\" said Birdsall. \"But the first couple of issues were really reflective of that male, straight, bro-y chef culture.\" It was this narrowly macho focus that led Birdsall to set the record less than straight with \u003ca href=\"http://luckypeach.com/america-your-food-is-so-gay/\" target=\"_blank\">America, Your Food is So Gay\u003c/a>, which won a James Beard Journalism Award in 2014. Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyfriend reading aloud from Olney's writings, feeling like they were getting a glimpse of a secret gay world, one that was, by necessity, elusive, both cooly cerebral yet infused with the sensuality of Olney's adopted home in the south of France, its brilliant light, its hillsides of thyme and lavender. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what was coded and discrete before was, by the 1990s, exploding into \u003cem>we're here, we're queer, get used to it\u003c/em>, especially in San Francisco. When Preeti Mistry, co-owner and head chef of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.juhubeachclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a>, first came to San Francisco in 1996, she found out lesbians like Elizabeth Falkner, Traci Des Jardins, and Elka Gilmore putting their stamp on the evolving California cuisine of the time. Mistry, who originally wanted to be a filmmaker, was inspired by these chefs' creativity and fearlessness, so much so that she left a job in the \"gay bubble\" of \u003ca href=\"http://frameline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Frameline\u003c/a> to start training in fine dining at Claridge's in London. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3024px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new.jpg\" alt=\"Writer John Birdsall, photographer Nik Sharma, restauranteur/chef Preeti Mistry, in conversation with Jarry editor Lukas Volger.\" width=\"3024\" height=\"3024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new.jpg 3024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer John Birdsall, photographer Nik Sharma, restauranteur/chef Preeti Mistry, in conversation with Jarry editor Lukas Volger. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These women were my heroes,\" she said. It wasn't just that these women were out, at a time when restaurant kitchens could still be tough places for women, gay or straight. It was that they were changing the game, on and off the plate. \"At Citizen Cake, Elizabeth changed the presentation of pastry,\" said Mistry. Her cakes were architectural, pierced with sugar shards or kitschily frosted shag-carpet deep. They were disruptive, deconstructed, even a little bit dangerous. (It's no surprise that her first cookbook, written in the form of a comic book, was titled \"Demolition Desserts.\") Mistry remembers a dinner with Jim Dodge, then a well-known pastry chef trained in a more classical style. \"When Elizabeth's dessert came out, he said 'What is this crap?'\" It was a clash of sensibilities, his gay, hers queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For photographer Nik Sharma of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.abrowntable.com/\" target=\"_blank\">A Brown Table\u003c/a>, and the youngest of the group, coming out wasn't an issue, but finding a gay social circle when he first started medical school wasn't easy. A chat with a gay professor led to an invitation to the med school's \"secret gay potluck\"--secret not out of fear, but simply because \"they didn't want any straights to come,\" said Sharma. Formerly a medical researcher, now a professional photographer specializing in food, he still treasures the friendships he made over those dinners. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2499px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Nik Sharma and writer John Birdsall, with portrait of Sharma by Patrick Byrnes from Jarry issue 2.\" width=\"2499\" height=\"2846\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5.jpg 2499w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-768x875.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-1440x1640.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-1180x1344.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-960x1093.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2499px) 100vw, 2499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Nik Sharma and writer John Birdsall, with portrait of Sharma by Patrick Byrnes from Jarry issue 2. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharma, like Mistry, is of Indian heritage. Calling out his brownness in the title of his blog--and often photographing his own hands as he made pastry or squeezed oranges--was a deliberate choice, compelled by a wish to make visual space for his immigrant perspective and culture within a blogging world that was overwhelming white and female. His work has paid off: next week, he'll have a new column, A Brown Kitchen, in the San Francisco Chronicle, and his blog has won numerous awards for photography. Sharma was also the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/01/08/discover-the-hands-behind-nik-sharmas-food-photography/\" target=\"_blank\">short video\u003c/a> on KQED back in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birdsall, who won a second James Beard Award for \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/jarry-mag/straight-up-passing-1fab62a5536c#.a3mm0vlqj\" target=\"_blank\">Straight Up Passing\u003c/a>, an article about gay chefs in Jarry's first issue, sees queer cooking as an act of anti-normative transgression and resistance. It's not a concept that all the chefs he spoke to agreed with--in fact, he was stonewalled by several high-profile out chefs, who bristled at being categorized as \"gay chefs,\" much in the way that many artists resist being defined as \"women writers\" or \"female musicians,\" or felt that their sexuality had nothing to do with how they cooked. Or was it just that these chefs--white and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender\" target=\"_blank\">cisgender\u003c/a>, as Mistry points out--still had more to lose by promoting a higher profile gay identity, even in these more equal times? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birdsall feels that such transgressive attitudes in the kitchen can be adopted even by non-gay chefs. He points to the boundary-breaking of \u003ca href=\"https://missionchinesefood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Chinese Food,\u003c/a> as well as the \"sensitive, fluid, thoughtful\" cooking of \u003ca href=\"http://dpgrp.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Patterson.\u003c/a> Reaching back to the work of Jeremiah Tower (who was mentored by both Beard and Olney), Birdsall sees Tower's shaping of California cuisine in the 1980s as \"a repudiation of the more formal cuisine that came before, as an expression of intense pleasurability, [creating] these very high-level, pleasurable experiences in both cooking and eating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not interested in forcing something that's not natural, in over-manipulation\" of ingredients or presentation, said Mistry. \"We're not distilling things; it's fire and food and spices.\" And while she does have a underlying aesthetic for plating (\"It's not a trough!\"), she doesn't see the need to torture her food with stylists' tweezers, either. More important to Mistry is creating a workplace, and a dining room, that's diverse and welcoming in ways that restaurants haven't always been, both for diners and employees. Her goal is a place that's so diverse that no one group is on top with the power to belittle or harass others. The vulgar humor that's been long seen as a staple in restaurant kitchens has no place in hers. \"We make jokes and laugh all day long,\" said Mistry, but her employees learn fast that dumb dick jokes won't fly. \"We just shame and humiliate them if they try. Like, 'that's the best you come up with? Really?'\" Mistry said. \"They have to work harder than that.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a butch woman of color, Mistry has experienced first-hand the stark contrast between how she and her wife, Juhu Beach Club co-owner Ann Nadeau, are treated in restaurants when they are and aren't recognized. If she's recognized from her stint on Top Chef and Anthony Bourdain's \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2015/10/14/eat_exactly_as_anthony_bourdain_did.php\" target=\"_blank\">Parts Unknown\u003c/a> food and travel show, they get the industry hotshot treatment; if not, they've been ignored by bartenders and slighted by hostesses. \"When \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/category/alicia-garza/\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Garza\u003c/a>, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, comes in, we treat her like a rock star,\" Mistry said. Part of running her own restaurant is the freedom to speak out for causes and issues she and Nadeau feel strongly about, and to create a workplace that reflects the diversity of Oakland, where she and Nadeau work and live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tides are changing, both in race and gender,\" Mistry said. \"People are used to seeing brown people in the kitchen. We'd like to have an equal diversity in the front of the house.\" \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma discuss the concept of the Queer Kitchen with Jarry mag. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1467399001,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":1425},"headData":{"title":"In the Queer Kitchen: A Conversation with John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma | KQED","description":"John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma discuss the concept of the Queer Kitchen with Jarry mag. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"In the Queer Kitchen: A Conversation with John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma","datePublished":"2016-06-27T23:15:45.000Z","dateModified":"2016-07-01T18:50:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"110349 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=110349","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/06/27/in-the-queer-kitchen-a-conversation-with-john-birdsall-preeti-mistry-and-nik-sharma/","disqusTitle":"In the Queer Kitchen: A Conversation with John Birdsall, Preeti Mistry, and Nik Sharma","path":"/bayareabites/110349/in-the-queer-kitchen-a-conversation-with-john-birdsall-preeti-mistry-and-nik-sharma","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What is a queer kitchen? Is there a recognizable queer style or sensibility that can be expressed through food? Can non-gay chefs queer their food? As the rainbow-stickered crowds in booty shorts and body glitter surged through Dolores Park and Civic Center on a sunny Saturday afternoon, a rather more sedate audience of thirty gathered upstairs at Williams Sonoma's flagship store in Union Square to listen to a discussion of these questions and more. The conversation was the first San Francisco event organized by the New York-based gay men's food magazine \u003ca href=\"http://www.jarrymag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jarry\u003c/a>, a twice-yearly print publication that launched (thanks in part to a Kickstarter campaign) in the fall of 2015. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new.jpg\" alt=\"Jarry issue 2 and tote bags.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent4-new-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarry issue 2 and tote bags. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to moderator (and Jarry co-founder/editor) Lukas Volger, the idea of the \"queer kitchen\"--as opposed to \"gay food\"--seemed both more inclusive and more contemporary, at a time when few, if any, restaurants would position themselves as catering to an exclusively gay clientele. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer and former chef John Birdsall is a firm believer that there is a queer aesthetic in food, with its roots in the work of Craig Claiborne, James Beard, and ex-pat Richard Olney, a trifecta of closeted gay men whose sensibilities and far-reaching influence changed the way Americans cooked. It's a legacy that Birdsall thinks more people--especially straight chefs--should acknowledge. \"I love \u003ca href=\"http://luckypeach.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Peach\u003c/a> [magazine],\" said Birdsall. \"But the first couple of issues were really reflective of that male, straight, bro-y chef culture.\" It was this narrowly macho focus that led Birdsall to set the record less than straight with \u003ca href=\"http://luckypeach.com/america-your-food-is-so-gay/\" target=\"_blank\">America, Your Food is So Gay\u003c/a>, which won a James Beard Journalism Award in 2014. Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyfriend reading aloud from Olney's writings, feeling like they were getting a glimpse of a secret gay world, one that was, by necessity, elusive, both cooly cerebral yet infused with the sensuality of Olney's adopted home in the south of France, its brilliant light, its hillsides of thyme and lavender. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what was coded and discrete before was, by the 1990s, exploding into \u003cem>we're here, we're queer, get used to it\u003c/em>, especially in San Francisco. When Preeti Mistry, co-owner and head chef of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.juhubeachclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a>, first came to San Francisco in 1996, she found out lesbians like Elizabeth Falkner, Traci Des Jardins, and Elka Gilmore putting their stamp on the evolving California cuisine of the time. Mistry, who originally wanted to be a filmmaker, was inspired by these chefs' creativity and fearlessness, so much so that she left a job in the \"gay bubble\" of \u003ca href=\"http://frameline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Frameline\u003c/a> to start training in fine dining at Claridge's in London. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3024px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new.jpg\" alt=\"Writer John Birdsall, photographer Nik Sharma, restauranteur/chef Preeti Mistry, in conversation with Jarry editor Lukas Volger.\" width=\"3024\" height=\"3024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new.jpg 3024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent6-new-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer John Birdsall, photographer Nik Sharma, restauranteur/chef Preeti Mistry, in conversation with Jarry editor Lukas Volger. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These women were my heroes,\" she said. It wasn't just that these women were out, at a time when restaurant kitchens could still be tough places for women, gay or straight. It was that they were changing the game, on and off the plate. \"At Citizen Cake, Elizabeth changed the presentation of pastry,\" said Mistry. Her cakes were architectural, pierced with sugar shards or kitschily frosted shag-carpet deep. They were disruptive, deconstructed, even a little bit dangerous. (It's no surprise that her first cookbook, written in the form of a comic book, was titled \"Demolition Desserts.\") Mistry remembers a dinner with Jim Dodge, then a well-known pastry chef trained in a more classical style. \"When Elizabeth's dessert came out, he said 'What is this crap?'\" It was a clash of sensibilities, his gay, hers queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For photographer Nik Sharma of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.abrowntable.com/\" target=\"_blank\">A Brown Table\u003c/a>, and the youngest of the group, coming out wasn't an issue, but finding a gay social circle when he first started medical school wasn't easy. A chat with a gay professor led to an invitation to the med school's \"secret gay potluck\"--secret not out of fear, but simply because \"they didn't want any straights to come,\" said Sharma. Formerly a medical researcher, now a professional photographer specializing in food, he still treasures the friendships he made over those dinners. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2499px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Nik Sharma and writer John Birdsall, with portrait of Sharma by Patrick Byrnes from Jarry issue 2.\" width=\"2499\" height=\"2846\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5.jpg 2499w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-768x875.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-1440x1640.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-1180x1344.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/JarryEvent5-960x1093.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2499px) 100vw, 2499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Nik Sharma and writer John Birdsall, with portrait of Sharma by Patrick Byrnes from Jarry issue 2. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharma, like Mistry, is of Indian heritage. Calling out his brownness in the title of his blog--and often photographing his own hands as he made pastry or squeezed oranges--was a deliberate choice, compelled by a wish to make visual space for his immigrant perspective and culture within a blogging world that was overwhelming white and female. His work has paid off: next week, he'll have a new column, A Brown Kitchen, in the San Francisco Chronicle, and his blog has won numerous awards for photography. Sharma was also the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/01/08/discover-the-hands-behind-nik-sharmas-food-photography/\" target=\"_blank\">short video\u003c/a> on KQED back in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birdsall, who won a second James Beard Award for \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/jarry-mag/straight-up-passing-1fab62a5536c#.a3mm0vlqj\" target=\"_blank\">Straight Up Passing\u003c/a>, an article about gay chefs in Jarry's first issue, sees queer cooking as an act of anti-normative transgression and resistance. It's not a concept that all the chefs he spoke to agreed with--in fact, he was stonewalled by several high-profile out chefs, who bristled at being categorized as \"gay chefs,\" much in the way that many artists resist being defined as \"women writers\" or \"female musicians,\" or felt that their sexuality had nothing to do with how they cooked. Or was it just that these chefs--white and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender\" target=\"_blank\">cisgender\u003c/a>, as Mistry points out--still had more to lose by promoting a higher profile gay identity, even in these more equal times? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birdsall feels that such transgressive attitudes in the kitchen can be adopted even by non-gay chefs. He points to the boundary-breaking of \u003ca href=\"https://missionchinesefood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Chinese Food,\u003c/a> as well as the \"sensitive, fluid, thoughtful\" cooking of \u003ca href=\"http://dpgrp.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Patterson.\u003c/a> Reaching back to the work of Jeremiah Tower (who was mentored by both Beard and Olney), Birdsall sees Tower's shaping of California cuisine in the 1980s as \"a repudiation of the more formal cuisine that came before, as an expression of intense pleasurability, [creating] these very high-level, pleasurable experiences in both cooking and eating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not interested in forcing something that's not natural, in over-manipulation\" of ingredients or presentation, said Mistry. \"We're not distilling things; it's fire and food and spices.\" And while she does have a underlying aesthetic for plating (\"It's not a trough!\"), she doesn't see the need to torture her food with stylists' tweezers, either. More important to Mistry is creating a workplace, and a dining room, that's diverse and welcoming in ways that restaurants haven't always been, both for diners and employees. Her goal is a place that's so diverse that no one group is on top with the power to belittle or harass others. The vulgar humor that's been long seen as a staple in restaurant kitchens has no place in hers. \"We make jokes and laugh all day long,\" said Mistry, but her employees learn fast that dumb dick jokes won't fly. \"We just shame and humiliate them if they try. Like, 'that's the best you come up with? Really?'\" Mistry said. \"They have to work harder than that.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a butch woman of color, Mistry has experienced first-hand the stark contrast between how she and her wife, Juhu Beach Club co-owner Ann Nadeau, are treated in restaurants when they are and aren't recognized. If she's recognized from her stint on Top Chef and Anthony Bourdain's \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2015/10/14/eat_exactly_as_anthony_bourdain_did.php\" target=\"_blank\">Parts Unknown\u003c/a> food and travel show, they get the industry hotshot treatment; if not, they've been ignored by bartenders and slighted by hostesses. \"When \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/category/alicia-garza/\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Garza\u003c/a>, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, comes in, we treat her like a rock star,\" Mistry said. Part of running her own restaurant is the freedom to speak out for causes and issues she and Nadeau feel strongly about, and to create a workplace that reflects the diversity of Oakland, where she and Nadeau work and live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tides are changing, both in race and gender,\" Mistry said. \"People are used to seeing brown people in the kitchen. We'd like to have an equal diversity in the front of the house.\" \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/110349/in-the-queer-kitchen-a-conversation-with-john-birdsall-preeti-mistry-and-nik-sharma","authors":["5038"],"categories":["bayareabites_2254","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_4084"],"tags":["bayareabites_1104","bayareabites_4299","bayareabites_2321","bayareabites_2329","bayareabites_9445","bayareabites_10541","bayareabites_15514","bayareabites_15513"],"featImg":"bayareabites_110365","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_44839":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_44839","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"44839","score":null,"sort":[1340559655000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lgbt-pride-profile-culinary-artist-yasmin-golan","title":"LGBT Pride Profile: Culinary Artist Yasmin Golan","publishDate":1340559655,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Yasmin_Eli_Africa-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Yasmin_Eli_Africa-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\" title=\"Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44977\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our gay-friendly town is full of visitors. June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs, personalities and waiters who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We’ve talked with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/20/lgbt-pride-profile-top-chef-and-juhu-beach-club%E2%80%99s-preeti-mistry/\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/21/lgbt-pride-profile-waiter-and-writer-michael-procopio/\">Michael Procopio\u003c/a> so far. Next up is a chef and culinary artist named Yasmin Golan, 33. She spends much of her time working for \u003ca href=\"http://calicopiekitchen.wordpress.com/about/\">Calico Pie\u003c/a> where she creates private food events and lessons. Golan is also one of the brains behind the gay pop-up \u003ca href=\"http://queerfoodforlove.blogspot.com/\">Queer Food For Love\u003c/a>. Chez Panisse, Incanto, Boulette’s Larder and Eccolo are among the restaurants where Golan trained and cooked before branching out to other artistic and food related projects. Bay Area Bites interviewed Golan via telephone and email recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminFixingPrettyPlatterBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminFixingPrettyPlatterBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmin Fixing Pretty Platter\" title=\"Yasmin Fixing Pretty Platter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44899\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan working and creating with food. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is your work going? What’s new?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an interdisciplinary culinary artist who creates one of a kind dinners and pop-ups, usually around themes involving some kind of storytelling. Some of my past projects have included Queer Food For Love, a collaborative pop-up restaurant I co-organized in San Francisco for four years with queer cooks and artists; solo projects through my catering business, Calico Pie, exploring issues like food wastes and worm composting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and biographical dinners that tell personal stories of Diaspora and migration through food. My current project is starting a bike-up grocery in Oakland, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HumblebeeGrocery\">Humblebee Grocery\u003c/a>, to provide week-round access to fresh produce and artisan foods east of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you live? How did you and your partner meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI currently live with my partner Ami in Oakland. We fell in love over a picnic after I taught a cooking class in their shop. We raise animals, grow food together, worm compost, and keep bees in a multiracial, mixed-class neighborhood that we love. As a couple we are always thinking about how we can get our household more sustainable, by eliminating plastics from our lives or using reclaimed wood, or getting around by bicycle and biodiesel. Ultimately, we strive to create neighborhoods that are sustainable, too, serving local needs and creating jobs with dignity that treat people, plants, and animals with respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was based out of San Francisco around the Mission for seven years and I feel like I’m just another casualty of gentrification of the city. I love Oakland but mourn the way the Mission is turning into a suburb of Silicon Valley. Hopefully people like me can bring the community spirit to organizing and queer arts stuff. I definitely feel passionate about Oakland, and I'm involved in and sad about what’s happening. It’s all interconnected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a queer, a majority of my stuff is in the city. Everyone’s scattering for survival. Queer Food for Love was an intersection between art and love and came out of time that people could whittle away from their day jobs. None of us got paid for that. We could find underground spaces and it required all of us to take time away from our jobs. People from that project had to scatter and look after themselves rather than the community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ami has lived in Oakland for a few years. I see tons of queer people. There are events here and there but there’s not that sense of running into people to get coffee like in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminServingBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminServingBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmin Serving\" title=\"Yasmin Serving\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44900\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan (R) serving food. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist…what is your perspective and experience with regard to homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVery little gratitude is paid to women and people of color who work in food establishments, including the farm workers, waitresses, cooks, and dishwashers. When more women become self-employed and support each other's businesses; when restaurant workers organize and form unions to resist exploitation; when workers form co-operatives -- I think more women, queer people, and folks of color will share the benefits and profits of growing, preparing, and serving food as a livelihood. Yes, the current food system operates within a framework of globalized racism, sexism, and class exploitation, but queer and feminist folks can help invent the future and create new systems for the production and distribution of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house vs. the kitchen regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI feel like gender presentation does play a role in how people are treated in the workplace. As a femme I found it necessary to butch it up in kitchens to be taken seriously by straight men, and I'm sure a lot of straight women do, too. Does the gender role-playing in the kitchen make the food taste better? No. The more I work for myself, the less harassment I have to deal with, because I can focus on food and community-building instead of ignorance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminsPlatterJune2012BAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminsPlatterJune2012BAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmins Platter June 2012 \" title=\"Yasmins Platter June 2012 \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44901\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Where art and food intersect: Yasmin Golan's finished creation. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a food professional? Has being an LGBT person affected your career in any particular way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs a self-employed person I can say I am a queer, feminist chef -- and people who would like to see the world made safer for women and queer people can support what I do. Economic empowerment is very important to being able to say who I am and what I believe. Those who resonate with the message can then come out, too. If I say I am a queer person who is concerned about global warming and I want to start a business that reflects that, then I am making the world safer for others who want that, too. Coming out means standing up for what is more important to you than money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world and in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI see women being inspired by each other to start their own businesses, and trans people inspired by other trans people to work for themselves. Empowerment is how queer people are making the world safer for ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since San Francisco is a gay mecca are there restaurants (as opposed to bars that serve food) that are known to cater to a mostly gay clientele? Are there places exclusively for LGBT women vs. men?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI think more dykes and trans artists in San Francisco probably wrote books and put on performances and organized events and made art on diets of burritos and beer than any other food the city has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you really want to go somewhere queer, I recommend you shop at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rainbow.coop/\">Rainbow Grocery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI like to spend Pride weekend picnicking in the park with friends or camping in nature to remember what is really important to me: community, food, nature, love, and chosen family.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In celebration of LGBT Pride month, Mary Ladd profiles culinary artist Yasmin Golan, who lives in Oakland and has worked locally in the pop-up scene and restaurant world. Golan’s ideas on cooking and living are based around community and sustainability.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1340601472,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1236},"headData":{"title":"LGBT Pride Profile: Culinary Artist Yasmin Golan | KQED","description":"In celebration of LGBT Pride month, Mary Ladd profiles culinary artist Yasmin Golan, who lives in Oakland and has worked locally in the pop-up scene and restaurant world. Golan’s ideas on cooking and living are based around community and sustainability.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"LGBT Pride Profile: Culinary Artist Yasmin Golan","datePublished":"2012-06-24T17:40:55.000Z","dateModified":"2012-06-25T05:17:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"44839 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=44839","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/24/lgbt-pride-profile-culinary-artist-yasmin-golan/","disqusTitle":"LGBT Pride Profile: Culinary Artist Yasmin Golan","path":"/bayareabites/44839/lgbt-pride-profile-culinary-artist-yasmin-golan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Yasmin_Eli_Africa-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Yasmin_Eli_Africa-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\" title=\"Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44977\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan photo courtesy of Eli Africa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our gay-friendly town is full of visitors. June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs, personalities and waiters who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We’ve talked with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/20/lgbt-pride-profile-top-chef-and-juhu-beach-club%E2%80%99s-preeti-mistry/\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/21/lgbt-pride-profile-waiter-and-writer-michael-procopio/\">Michael Procopio\u003c/a> so far. Next up is a chef and culinary artist named Yasmin Golan, 33. She spends much of her time working for \u003ca href=\"http://calicopiekitchen.wordpress.com/about/\">Calico Pie\u003c/a> where she creates private food events and lessons. Golan is also one of the brains behind the gay pop-up \u003ca href=\"http://queerfoodforlove.blogspot.com/\">Queer Food For Love\u003c/a>. Chez Panisse, Incanto, Boulette’s Larder and Eccolo are among the restaurants where Golan trained and cooked before branching out to other artistic and food related projects. Bay Area Bites interviewed Golan via telephone and email recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminFixingPrettyPlatterBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminFixingPrettyPlatterBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmin Fixing Pretty Platter\" title=\"Yasmin Fixing Pretty Platter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44899\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan working and creating with food. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is your work going? What’s new?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an interdisciplinary culinary artist who creates one of a kind dinners and pop-ups, usually around themes involving some kind of storytelling. Some of my past projects have included Queer Food For Love, a collaborative pop-up restaurant I co-organized in San Francisco for four years with queer cooks and artists; solo projects through my catering business, Calico Pie, exploring issues like food wastes and worm composting, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and biographical dinners that tell personal stories of Diaspora and migration through food. My current project is starting a bike-up grocery in Oakland, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HumblebeeGrocery\">Humblebee Grocery\u003c/a>, to provide week-round access to fresh produce and artisan foods east of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you live? How did you and your partner meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI currently live with my partner Ami in Oakland. We fell in love over a picnic after I taught a cooking class in their shop. We raise animals, grow food together, worm compost, and keep bees in a multiracial, mixed-class neighborhood that we love. As a couple we are always thinking about how we can get our household more sustainable, by eliminating plastics from our lives or using reclaimed wood, or getting around by bicycle and biodiesel. Ultimately, we strive to create neighborhoods that are sustainable, too, serving local needs and creating jobs with dignity that treat people, plants, and animals with respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was based out of San Francisco around the Mission for seven years and I feel like I’m just another casualty of gentrification of the city. I love Oakland but mourn the way the Mission is turning into a suburb of Silicon Valley. Hopefully people like me can bring the community spirit to organizing and queer arts stuff. I definitely feel passionate about Oakland, and I'm involved in and sad about what’s happening. It’s all interconnected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a queer, a majority of my stuff is in the city. Everyone’s scattering for survival. Queer Food for Love was an intersection between art and love and came out of time that people could whittle away from their day jobs. None of us got paid for that. We could find underground spaces and it required all of us to take time away from our jobs. People from that project had to scatter and look after themselves rather than the community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ami has lived in Oakland for a few years. I see tons of queer people. There are events here and there but there’s not that sense of running into people to get coffee like in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminServingBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminServingBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmin Serving\" title=\"Yasmin Serving\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44900\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yasmin Golan (R) serving food. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist…what is your perspective and experience with regard to homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVery little gratitude is paid to women and people of color who work in food establishments, including the farm workers, waitresses, cooks, and dishwashers. When more women become self-employed and support each other's businesses; when restaurant workers organize and form unions to resist exploitation; when workers form co-operatives -- I think more women, queer people, and folks of color will share the benefits and profits of growing, preparing, and serving food as a livelihood. Yes, the current food system operates within a framework of globalized racism, sexism, and class exploitation, but queer and feminist folks can help invent the future and create new systems for the production and distribution of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house vs. the kitchen regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI feel like gender presentation does play a role in how people are treated in the workplace. As a femme I found it necessary to butch it up in kitchens to be taken seriously by straight men, and I'm sure a lot of straight women do, too. Does the gender role-playing in the kitchen make the food taste better? No. The more I work for myself, the less harassment I have to deal with, because I can focus on food and community-building instead of ignorance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminsPlatterJune2012BAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/500YasminsPlatterJune2012BAB.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmins Platter June 2012 \" title=\"Yasmins Platter June 2012 \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44901\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Where art and food intersect: Yasmin Golan's finished creation. Photo courtesy of Yasmin Golan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a food professional? Has being an LGBT person affected your career in any particular way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs a self-employed person I can say I am a queer, feminist chef -- and people who would like to see the world made safer for women and queer people can support what I do. Economic empowerment is very important to being able to say who I am and what I believe. Those who resonate with the message can then come out, too. If I say I am a queer person who is concerned about global warming and I want to start a business that reflects that, then I am making the world safer for others who want that, too. Coming out means standing up for what is more important to you than money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world and in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI see women being inspired by each other to start their own businesses, and trans people inspired by other trans people to work for themselves. Empowerment is how queer people are making the world safer for ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since San Francisco is a gay mecca are there restaurants (as opposed to bars that serve food) that are known to cater to a mostly gay clientele? Are there places exclusively for LGBT women vs. men?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI think more dykes and trans artists in San Francisco probably wrote books and put on performances and organized events and made art on diets of burritos and beer than any other food the city has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you really want to go somewhere queer, I recommend you shop at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rainbow.coop/\">Rainbow Grocery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI like to spend Pride weekend picnicking in the park with friends or camping in nature to remember what is really important to me: community, food, nature, love, and chosen family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/44839/lgbt-pride-profile-culinary-artist-yasmin-golan","authors":["5092"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_2407","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_1146","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_90","bayareabites_60","bayareabites_1873"],"tags":["bayareabites_10539","bayareabites_2329","bayareabites_9448","bayareabites_2311","bayareabites_14757","bayareabites_10541","bayareabites_10540","bayareabites_10538"],"featImg":"bayareabites_44977","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_44804":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_44804","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"44804","score":null,"sort":[1340299241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lgbt-pride-profile-waiter-and-writer-michael-procopio","title":"LGBT Pride Profile: Waiter and Writer Michael Procopio","publishDate":1340299241,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Procopio_DryBABJune2012.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Procopio_DryBABJune2012.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Procopio\" title=\"Michael Procopio\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44862\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Michael Procopio photo courtesy of Julie Michelle Photography\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our gay-friendly town is full of visitors. June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs and personalities who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We’ve talked with Palomino’s chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>, and chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/20/lgbt-pride-profile-top-chef-and-juhu-beach-club%E2%80%99s-preeti-mistry/\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a> of the upcoming Juhu Beach Club. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/procopster\">Michael Procopio\u003c/a> was on the top of our list of folks to talk to because he is funny and smart. Readers may remember his witty writing from his days here as a Bay Area Bites \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/michael-procopio/\">contributor\u003c/a>. He currently turns out great lines like these at his \u003ca href=\"http://foodforthethoughtless.com/\">Food for the Thoughtless\u003c/a> blog: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If the dough has become too warm at this point (read: if it feels as droopy as a retired wet nurse’s bosom) place the folded dough onto a tray and pop it into the freezer until it is once again pert.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then there’s this one, \u003cem>“Wash hands as thoroughly as if you were about to perform surgery on your own grandmother.”\u003c/em> Procopio lives in North Pacific Heights and attended the California Culinary Academy. He grew up in Anaheim and is a professional waiter who also has experience cooking in restaurants. Procopio was interviewed via telephone recently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist. What is your perspective and experience with regard to homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy experience has been very good actually. When I worked in the kitchen, I worked in a small restaurant for a Kiwi woman who was actually wonderful. I never had any problem in a restaurant kitchen. Oddly the only homophobia and discrimination was from someone famous that I’d rather not get into. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Octopus_ProcopioBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Octopus_ProcopioBAB.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"560Octopus_ProcopioBAB\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44861\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Michael Procopio photo courtesy of Julie Michelle Photography\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house vs. the kitchen regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMost of my career has been spent as a waiter. It’s been 20 years of waiting tables. There’s one woman in the kitchen at the restaurant where I work and she’s openly gay. She sort of straddles the two worlds because she’s on the floor as well. Our pastry chef was joking that gay men are in the pastry department and gay women are on the line, cooking. It seems a bit of a stereotype but at least it’s true in our restaurant. We’ve got a great kitchen staff. I think they’re all really nice people and they kick ass. If you don’t work well, that’s going to be more of an issue than whether you’re a man or woman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a service professional? Has being an LGBT person affected you career in any particular way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was already out. I’ve lived here for 17 years. I’ve never had an issue. It’s just a part of who I am. It doesn’t define me as a person and a waiter. My sensibilities and humor come through individually. I don't see it as gayness, I see it as Michael-ness and it can be a non-issue. I can’t speak for anybody but we have whatever we consider a normal-to-us life here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world? In the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI lived in the Castro for several years and there were concentrations of gay restaurants: Mecca, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/orphan-andys-san-francisco\">Orphan Andy’s\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://castrosausagefactory.com/\">The Sausage Factory\u003c/a>… that’s just because of the neighborhood. Frankly it’s San Francisco for god’s sake. I don’t think people really bat an eye. To me it’s a non-issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a subculture, there’s not one that I’ve witnessed. I have gay friends and straight friends in the restaurant industry. I don't’ see any concentration. At my restaurant, there’s three gay men and one gay woman. I work with one guy who’s very effeminate and stereotypical. He’s an extremely professional waiter and so am I. It’s something I don't try to flaunt or hide. I don’t think there’s a gay union. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You live near the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-door-cafe-san-francisco-3\">Red Door Café\u003c/a> and call it one of the gayest spots around. Can you tell us more?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe clientele is mixed. The owner, Ahmed, is unapologetically gay. He often dresses in costumes and wigs. Sometimes there’s an hour and a half wait. During the wait, Ahmed makes people hold baby dolls. He’ll say, “If you can’t take care of the doll, you can’t take care of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or he’ll interview people with a mirror, and ask, “Tell me something fabulous about yourself, why I should serve you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He makes people play along. When you’re in, it’s theater. The food is good. It’s an incredible place: a performance piece, where everyone is participating. It’s really fascinating. He frankly doesn’t give a shit. He only wants people that want to be there. I told him this is what I feared San Francisco is losing... being there made me the happiest boy in the city. It’s awesome. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red Door Café is only open four days a week, Friday through Monday. I rarely go in to eat because it’s so busy. I go get a coffee there and then hang out, chat and watch the action… watch the barista.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don’t. It’s personal for me. I don’t like any kind of crowds, gay or straight. If it’s a drunk crowd, it gives me the creeps. I don’t care for parades because I worked in one every evening at Disneyland. I was even Goofy, and it was very hot in the costume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand pride and the meaning of it. I have been to the parade. I showed up jaded and said, “Oh the floats suck.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I saw people marching from the small towns from outside the city and saw how they were beaming and joyful. I thought, “they couldn’t do this where they live.” The only pride I felt was from that. I’m not proud that I’m a gay man -- it’s not necessarily a thing to be proud of because it’s just who people are. But I was proud of my city because it fosters acceptance. The fact that all these people feel welcome here and can march in the open is really an incredible thing. I think that’s great. If I do go to anything, I go to the \u003ca href=\"http://thedykemarch.org/\">Dyke March\u003c/a> because it’s fun and unstructured. I wander because I like to keep moving. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think about your style of humor as particularly gay? Are you aware of it? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy humor is a product of my environment. I’ve always had a very gay sensibility. I grew up with an older brother, Doug, who was my primary source of entertainment. He was very funny and he was gay. He loved musicals. He was my primary influence. I owe a lot to him. I just happened to have an older brother who even as a teenager was a middle aged gay man trapped in a teenager’s body. For Anaheim, he had a very worldly outlook. And he was remarkably sophisticated. \u003ca href=\"http://foodforthethoughtless.com/2010/08/death-in-the-afternoon/\">He died of AIDS\u003c/a>. That’s part of the pride celebration that gets me, and it’s not in a bad way. I’m so grateful to see people marching with AIDS. When I do see them marching, it’s sort of a happy-sad time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always been surrounded by smart people. Even in school I felt like I was keeping up with them. I kept myself sharp. I’ve been lucky enough to be surrounded with really talented, funny people. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In celebration of LGBT Pride month, Mary Ladd profiles Michael Procopio, who is a San Francisco waiter and writer online at Food for the Thoughtless. Procopio shares how his brother Doug, who died of AIDS, influenced his brand of humor, and talks about one of his favorite gay eateries.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1340299824,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1450},"headData":{"title":"LGBT Pride Profile: Waiter and Writer Michael Procopio | KQED","description":"In celebration of LGBT Pride month, Mary Ladd profiles Michael Procopio, who is a San Francisco waiter and writer online at Food for the Thoughtless. 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June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs and personalities who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We’ve talked with Palomino’s chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>, and chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/20/lgbt-pride-profile-top-chef-and-juhu-beach-club%E2%80%99s-preeti-mistry/\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a> of the upcoming Juhu Beach Club. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/procopster\">Michael Procopio\u003c/a> was on the top of our list of folks to talk to because he is funny and smart. Readers may remember his witty writing from his days here as a Bay Area Bites \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/michael-procopio/\">contributor\u003c/a>. He currently turns out great lines like these at his \u003ca href=\"http://foodforthethoughtless.com/\">Food for the Thoughtless\u003c/a> blog: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If the dough has become too warm at this point (read: if it feels as droopy as a retired wet nurse’s bosom) place the folded dough onto a tray and pop it into the freezer until it is once again pert.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then there’s this one, \u003cem>“Wash hands as thoroughly as if you were about to perform surgery on your own grandmother.”\u003c/em> Procopio lives in North Pacific Heights and attended the California Culinary Academy. He grew up in Anaheim and is a professional waiter who also has experience cooking in restaurants. Procopio was interviewed via telephone recently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist. What is your perspective and experience with regard to homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy experience has been very good actually. When I worked in the kitchen, I worked in a small restaurant for a Kiwi woman who was actually wonderful. I never had any problem in a restaurant kitchen. Oddly the only homophobia and discrimination was from someone famous that I’d rather not get into. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Octopus_ProcopioBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/560Octopus_ProcopioBAB.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"560Octopus_ProcopioBAB\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44861\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Michael Procopio photo courtesy of Julie Michelle Photography\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house vs. the kitchen regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMost of my career has been spent as a waiter. It’s been 20 years of waiting tables. There’s one woman in the kitchen at the restaurant where I work and she’s openly gay. She sort of straddles the two worlds because she’s on the floor as well. Our pastry chef was joking that gay men are in the pastry department and gay women are on the line, cooking. It seems a bit of a stereotype but at least it’s true in our restaurant. We’ve got a great kitchen staff. I think they’re all really nice people and they kick ass. If you don’t work well, that’s going to be more of an issue than whether you’re a man or woman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a service professional? Has being an LGBT person affected you career in any particular way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI was already out. I’ve lived here for 17 years. I’ve never had an issue. It’s just a part of who I am. It doesn’t define me as a person and a waiter. My sensibilities and humor come through individually. I don't see it as gayness, I see it as Michael-ness and it can be a non-issue. I can’t speak for anybody but we have whatever we consider a normal-to-us life here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world? In the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI lived in the Castro for several years and there were concentrations of gay restaurants: Mecca, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/orphan-andys-san-francisco\">Orphan Andy’s\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://castrosausagefactory.com/\">The Sausage Factory\u003c/a>… that’s just because of the neighborhood. Frankly it’s San Francisco for god’s sake. I don’t think people really bat an eye. To me it’s a non-issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for a subculture, there’s not one that I’ve witnessed. I have gay friends and straight friends in the restaurant industry. I don't’ see any concentration. At my restaurant, there’s three gay men and one gay woman. I work with one guy who’s very effeminate and stereotypical. He’s an extremely professional waiter and so am I. It’s something I don't try to flaunt or hide. I don’t think there’s a gay union. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You live near the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-door-cafe-san-francisco-3\">Red Door Café\u003c/a> and call it one of the gayest spots around. Can you tell us more?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe clientele is mixed. The owner, Ahmed, is unapologetically gay. He often dresses in costumes and wigs. Sometimes there’s an hour and a half wait. During the wait, Ahmed makes people hold baby dolls. He’ll say, “If you can’t take care of the doll, you can’t take care of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or he’ll interview people with a mirror, and ask, “Tell me something fabulous about yourself, why I should serve you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He makes people play along. When you’re in, it’s theater. The food is good. It’s an incredible place: a performance piece, where everyone is participating. It’s really fascinating. He frankly doesn’t give a shit. He only wants people that want to be there. I told him this is what I feared San Francisco is losing... being there made me the happiest boy in the city. It’s awesome. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red Door Café is only open four days a week, Friday through Monday. I rarely go in to eat because it’s so busy. I go get a coffee there and then hang out, chat and watch the action… watch the barista.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don’t. It’s personal for me. I don’t like any kind of crowds, gay or straight. If it’s a drunk crowd, it gives me the creeps. I don’t care for parades because I worked in one every evening at Disneyland. I was even Goofy, and it was very hot in the costume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand pride and the meaning of it. I have been to the parade. I showed up jaded and said, “Oh the floats suck.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I saw people marching from the small towns from outside the city and saw how they were beaming and joyful. I thought, “they couldn’t do this where they live.” The only pride I felt was from that. I’m not proud that I’m a gay man -- it’s not necessarily a thing to be proud of because it’s just who people are. But I was proud of my city because it fosters acceptance. The fact that all these people feel welcome here and can march in the open is really an incredible thing. I think that’s great. If I do go to anything, I go to the \u003ca href=\"http://thedykemarch.org/\">Dyke March\u003c/a> because it’s fun and unstructured. I wander because I like to keep moving. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think about your style of humor as particularly gay? Are you aware of it? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy humor is a product of my environment. I’ve always had a very gay sensibility. I grew up with an older brother, Doug, who was my primary source of entertainment. He was very funny and he was gay. He loved musicals. He was my primary influence. I owe a lot to him. I just happened to have an older brother who even as a teenager was a middle aged gay man trapped in a teenager’s body. For Anaheim, he had a very worldly outlook. And he was remarkably sophisticated. \u003ca href=\"http://foodforthethoughtless.com/2010/08/death-in-the-afternoon/\">He died of AIDS\u003c/a>. That’s part of the pride celebration that gets me, and it’s not in a bad way. I’m so grateful to see people marching with AIDS. When I do see them marching, it’s sort of a happy-sad time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always been surrounded by smart people. Even in school I felt like I was keeping up with them. I kept myself sharp. I’ve been lucky enough to be surrounded with really talented, funny people. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/44804/lgbt-pride-profile-waiter-and-writer-michael-procopio","authors":["5092"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_2407","bayareabites_1865","bayareabites_1146","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_90"],"tags":["bayareabites_14755","bayareabites_2329","bayareabites_9448","bayareabites_9445","bayareabites_52","bayareabites_10531","bayareabites_10542","bayareabites_10541"],"featImg":"bayareabites_44861","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_44676":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_44676","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"44676","score":null,"sort":[1340200825000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lgbt-pride-profile-top-chef-and-juhu-beach-club%e2%80%99s-preeti-mistry","title":"LGBT Pride Profile: Top Chef and Juhu Beach Club’s Preeti Mistry ","publishDate":1340200825,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Preeti-platingBAB1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/Preeti-platingBAB1000.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti plating\" title=\"Preeti plating\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44841\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Preeti plating photo courtesy of Albert Law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our gay-friendly town is full of visitors. June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs, personalities and waiters who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We first talked with Palomino’s chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>. Up second is chef \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/chefpmistry\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a>, 35, who is readying to open her \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/chefpmistry\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a>, which will serve “Indian street food, snack food and a bit of home-style cooking” in the Mission and originated as a pop-up. Mistry was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/bio/preeti-mistry\">Top Chef Contestant\u003c/a> in 2009 and was executive chef for Google via \u003ca href=\"http://www.bamco.com/\">Bon Appétit Management Company\u003c/a> and was classically trained in London at Le Cordon Bleu. She was born in London, grew up in the United States and currently lives in Oakland. Bay Area Bites caught up with the chef recently via telephone and email interview. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JuhuBeachClub\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> going?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe restaurant is moving along...slowly. We have been in the permitting process for eight months now. We are very close to being done with this part. I’m hoping once this is done that we can move much faster. I’m looking at opening by the end of the summer. The concept will be similar to the pop-up, with more choices and dinner options. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our goal is to be open all day but I know that the location in the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2012/01/juhu_beach_club_lands_permanen.html\">Mission\u003c/a> will be much busier in the evenings. There will be several starters, or chaat. Those are items like my handmade samosas, as well as a Scotch egg with lamb mince, Vindaloo chicken wings with Bleu cheese raita and a seasonal bhel puri. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heart of the menu will focus on the “pav,” which in Hindi means small bun or bread. It’s the portable holder that created the popularity of the vada pav, considered Mumbai’s number one street food snack. We will have a vada pav, but also eight to ten different choices of fillings for your pav. Many are popular sandwich fillings from the pop-up like the “holy cow” and the “chowpatty chicken.” There will also be baby potato & eggplant in a spicy peanut sauce and egg masala. We will most likely also have a few larger plates like fish and chips and a curry of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist… what is your perspective and experience with sexism and homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n The culinary world is a contradiction when it comes to both sexism and homophobia. On a basic level, there is a meritocracy in the kitchen. On this level it does not matter who you are or what you look like or what you do outside of the kitchen. If you carry your weight and then some, if you are a team player and work your ass off then you are “in.” Make great food and then nobody can mess with you. Starting out, this is what I loved about it. You walk into a kitchen full of guys. They have low expectations and you prove you can do the job and then you are part of the team. Also, as a queer woman, once you prove yourself you are just one of the guys. I suppose this may be more difficult for men… I don’t know. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next level, I think it only became more difficult when I moved up the chain. There is a change when you go from being in the trenches to being people’s boss. I think this is where homophobia (and sexism, and in my case racism as well) starts to really get in the way. When you don’t look like “the boss,” certain people don’t want to take orders from you. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house (FOH) vs. the kitchen (back of the house or “BOH”) regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYes of course, the FOH and BOH inhabit two totally different orbits. I suppose the typical stereotype is that there are more gay men in the FOH and more lesbians in the BOH. But it seems like with all the TV shows with gay characters, the political environment in general and changing attitudes of a younger generation, this is becoming less of an issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a chef? Has being an LGBT person affected your career in any particular way? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWell it’s very rare that I ever have to come out to people. I kinda wear it on my sleeve, but I suppose there is always someone who doesn’t get it. I don’t really bother with those people. They’ll figure it out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being queer has to affect everything I do because it is who I am. I think once I moved into a place in my career where I was applying for Executive Chef positions, my triple minority status has probably helped me from a diversity stand point. I also suppose it added to Bravo’s interest in me as a contestant on Top Chef. They want an interesting and diverse group of chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/PreetiandAnnBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/PreetiandAnnBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti and Ann Nadeau\" title=\"Preeti and Ann Nadeau\" width=\"373\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44842\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Preeti & Ann Nadeau photo courtesy of Preeti Mistry\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re in a relationship that’s lasted for over 16 years. How did you two meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAnn Nadeau and I actually moved to San Francisco together. We met at a bar in Ann Arbor. She works for a research consulting firm and used to work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.jdvhotels.com/\">Joie de Vivre\u003c/a> in marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world? In the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI think there are several that intersect with each other across styles of cuisine, restaurant groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since San Francisco is a gay mecca are there restaurants (as opposed to bars that serve food) that are know to cater to a mostly gay clientele? Are there places exclusively for LGBT women versus men?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well there was Mecca. Which was awesome. I loved sitting at the bar and eating oysters. [Sigh.] So, of course the entire Castro… and now there are some great places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.frances-sf.com/\">Frances\u003c/a>. Honestly I don’t go to restaurants because they have gay clientele. I go for the great food and service. I suppose this is somewhat due to living in a “gay mecca” where we don’t have to make those distinctions as much because there are LGBT people everywhere. The Mission has so many great restaurants, and you are more likely to see more lesbians. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n I used to work for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.frameline.org/\">Frameline LGBT Film Festival\u003c/a> before I went to culinary school so going to see some inspiring and fun queer films has always been a part of our Pride month activities. We will check out the \u003ca href=\"http://thedykemarch.org/\">Dyke March\u003c/a> for a little while on Saturday. It’s always fun to run into people you have not seen in years. Then Sunday we have a tradition with friends to go see “Fun in Girl’s Shorts” at the Castro Theater followed by brunch at \u003ca href=\"http://www.zunicafe.com/\">Zuni\u003c/a>. It’s a great spot to watch everyone enjoying the festivities from the huge windows onto Market Street. The whole restaurant is usually super festive as well and it’s my favorite brunch spot in the city!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Juhu Beach Club is open, I hope to be able to get more involved with events around the city. Last year at the pop-up we had a Pride special lavender berry lassi that was very popular. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In celebration of LGBT Pride month, Mary Ladd profiles Preeti Mistry, who is opening Juhu Beach Club in San Francisco and has appeared on Top Chef. 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June means that the Bay Area and more specifically, San Francisco, fills to the brim with folks from all over the world to observe and celebrate the events, marches and festivities that culminate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpride.org/\">SF LGBT Pride\u003c/a>. Bay Area Bites is noting this 42nd annual come-as-you-are love fest by telling stories from the LBGT chefs, personalities and waiters who keep us sated 365 days of the year. We first talked with Palomino’s chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/15/lgbt-pride-profile-palomino-chef-adam-jones/\">Adam Jones\u003c/a>. Up second is chef \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/chefpmistry\">Preeti Mistry\u003c/a>, 35, who is readying to open her \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/chefpmistry\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a>, which will serve “Indian street food, snack food and a bit of home-style cooking” in the Mission and originated as a pop-up. Mistry was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/bio/preeti-mistry\">Top Chef Contestant\u003c/a> in 2009 and was executive chef for Google via \u003ca href=\"http://www.bamco.com/\">Bon Appétit Management Company\u003c/a> and was classically trained in London at Le Cordon Bleu. She was born in London, grew up in the United States and currently lives in Oakland. Bay Area Bites caught up with the chef recently via telephone and email interview. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JuhuBeachClub\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> going?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe restaurant is moving along...slowly. We have been in the permitting process for eight months now. We are very close to being done with this part. I’m hoping once this is done that we can move much faster. I’m looking at opening by the end of the summer. The concept will be similar to the pop-up, with more choices and dinner options. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our goal is to be open all day but I know that the location in the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2012/01/juhu_beach_club_lands_permanen.html\">Mission\u003c/a> will be much busier in the evenings. There will be several starters, or chaat. Those are items like my handmade samosas, as well as a Scotch egg with lamb mince, Vindaloo chicken wings with Bleu cheese raita and a seasonal bhel puri. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heart of the menu will focus on the “pav,” which in Hindi means small bun or bread. It’s the portable holder that created the popularity of the vada pav, considered Mumbai’s number one street food snack. We will have a vada pav, but also eight to ten different choices of fillings for your pav. Many are popular sandwich fillings from the pop-up like the “holy cow” and the “chowpatty chicken.” There will also be baby potato & eggplant in a spicy peanut sauce and egg masala. We will most likely also have a few larger plates like fish and chips and a curry of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The culinary world has often been portrayed as quite sexist… what is your perspective and experience with sexism and homophobia in the restaurant world?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n The culinary world is a contradiction when it comes to both sexism and homophobia. On a basic level, there is a meritocracy in the kitchen. On this level it does not matter who you are or what you look like or what you do outside of the kitchen. If you carry your weight and then some, if you are a team player and work your ass off then you are “in.” Make great food and then nobody can mess with you. Starting out, this is what I loved about it. You walk into a kitchen full of guys. They have low expectations and you prove you can do the job and then you are part of the team. Also, as a queer woman, once you prove yourself you are just one of the guys. I suppose this may be more difficult for men… I don’t know. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next level, I think it only became more difficult when I moved up the chain. There is a change when you go from being in the trenches to being people’s boss. I think this is where homophobia (and sexism, and in my case racism as well) starts to really get in the way. When you don’t look like “the boss,” certain people don’t want to take orders from you. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a difference between the front of the house (FOH) vs. the kitchen (back of the house or “BOH”) regarding this issue? A difference for men vs. women?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYes of course, the FOH and BOH inhabit two totally different orbits. I suppose the typical stereotype is that there are more gay men in the FOH and more lesbians in the BOH. But it seems like with all the TV shows with gay characters, the political environment in general and changing attitudes of a younger generation, this is becoming less of an issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a chef? Has being an LGBT person affected your career in any particular way? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWell it’s very rare that I ever have to come out to people. I kinda wear it on my sleeve, but I suppose there is always someone who doesn’t get it. I don’t really bother with those people. They’ll figure it out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being queer has to affect everything I do because it is who I am. I think once I moved into a place in my career where I was applying for Executive Chef positions, my triple minority status has probably helped me from a diversity stand point. I also suppose it added to Bravo’s interest in me as a contestant on Top Chef. They want an interesting and diverse group of chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/PreetiandAnnBAB.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/06/PreetiandAnnBAB.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti and Ann Nadeau\" title=\"Preeti and Ann Nadeau\" width=\"373\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44842\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Preeti & Ann Nadeau photo courtesy of Preeti Mistry\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re in a relationship that’s lasted for over 16 years. How did you two meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAnn Nadeau and I actually moved to San Francisco together. We met at a bar in Ann Arbor. She works for a research consulting firm and used to work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.jdvhotels.com/\">Joie de Vivre\u003c/a> in marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a gay subculture within the food world? In the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI think there are several that intersect with each other across styles of cuisine, restaurant groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since San Francisco is a gay mecca are there restaurants (as opposed to bars that serve food) that are know to cater to a mostly gay clientele? Are there places exclusively for LGBT women versus men?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well there was Mecca. Which was awesome. I loved sitting at the bar and eating oysters. [Sigh.] So, of course the entire Castro… and now there are some great places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.frances-sf.com/\">Frances\u003c/a>. Honestly I don’t go to restaurants because they have gay clientele. I go for the great food and service. I suppose this is somewhat due to living in a “gay mecca” where we don’t have to make those distinctions as much because there are LGBT people everywhere. The Mission has so many great restaurants, and you are more likely to see more lesbians. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you celebrate Pride Month personally and professionally?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n I used to work for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.frameline.org/\">Frameline LGBT Film Festival\u003c/a> before I went to culinary school so going to see some inspiring and fun queer films has always been a part of our Pride month activities. We will check out the \u003ca href=\"http://thedykemarch.org/\">Dyke March\u003c/a> for a little while on Saturday. It’s always fun to run into people you have not seen in years. Then Sunday we have a tradition with friends to go see “Fun in Girl’s Shorts” at the Castro Theater followed by brunch at \u003ca href=\"http://www.zunicafe.com/\">Zuni\u003c/a>. It’s a great spot to watch everyone enjoying the festivities from the huge windows onto Market Street. The whole restaurant is usually super festive as well and it’s my favorite brunch spot in the city!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Juhu Beach Club is open, I hope to be able to get more involved with events around the city. 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