This week we're bringing you a guest episode from our friends at Rebel Eater's Club (Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify). Host Virgie Tovar spoke with writer and activist Da'Shaun Harrison, tracing the roots of diet culture all the way back to slavery, talking about navigating the health care system as fat people of color, and exploring what it looks like to find love and community.Photo Courtesy of Rebel Eaters ClubHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.

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Rebel Eaters Club: Fatphobia (& Foodphobia) is Anti-Blackness with Da’Shaun Harrison

QTT will be back Jan 18th. Until then have a great holiday season and a happy new year!

A Quick Scheduling Announcement

Nico is joined by John Birdsall, whose biography "The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard," was just released. The book explores Beard's queerness, and the ways in which it trickled into his recipes, teachings, and American food culture as a whole.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.  

Something Different About Us

This week, Nico speaks to Ianne Fields Stewart.  Ianne is the founder of the Okra Project, an organization that hires Black trans chefs to go into the homes of other Black trans people to prepare a delicious home-cooked meal, building community along the way.  Image courtesy of Ianne Fields Stewart.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.  

Rest + Resilience With Ianne Fields Stewart

This episode was originally produced for Season 2 of Bodies, hosted by Allison Behringer. Trans folks are 8x more likely than cis folks to be diagnosed with an eating disorder. Nico shares their own experience with trying to untangle their gender dysphoria from their feelings and behaviours around food.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer the Table by becoming a member!Queer the Table is Powered by Simplecast.

Changing Shape

Nico is joined by Alia Volz to talk about her book "Half Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco," and how AIDS activists paid the way for marijuana legalization in this country. Find a Black-owned bookstore near you: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/bookstore-map.phpHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network, support Queer The Table by becoming a member! Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.  

"Good Outlaws"

When Soleil Ho was hired to be the new restaurant critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, she was replacing someone who had held the role for 32 years. She took it upon herself to totally reinvent the job, working to create a sight of exploration, representation, and equity. Listen in on our conversation to learn how she did it, and what her role is like now, in the time of Corona.In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas.Keep Queer the Table on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate. Art by Wendy XuQueer the Table is powered by Simplecast.

A New Kind of Restaurant Critic: Soleil Ho

Nico speaks with Dallas Robinson, a self-described young black Dyke, who is working to bring a visionary farm and education center to life. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas.Keep Queer the Table on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate. Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast. 

The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm

This is a broadcast version of last month's Queer the Table Live event, in partnership with the Hetrick Martin House. Nico was joined by Vanessa Parish, Christopher Murray, Andre Springer and John DeBary to talk about the ways in which queer folks, and particularly QTPOC are nourishing their communities through this time of crisis.In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas.Keep Queer The Table on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate. Queer The Table is powered by Simplecast. 

Queer the Table Live

Queer the Table will be back with Season Two on Monday, June 29th!Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.

Season Two is Coming Soon

This week, Nico checks in on Emmett Findley, the director of Communications at God's Love We Deliver.  Gods Love formed at the height of the AIDS Crisis to provide delicious, medically-tailored meals to New York City's most vulnerable.  Today, they've have had to reorganize every aspect of their operations to keep serving during this pandemic.Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.

Food is Medicine

This week, Nico is joined by Ingrid Nilsen. Ingrid launched her first YouTube Channel in 2009, quickly amassing millions of followers under the moniker "missglamorazzi." Ingrid went viral in 2015 when she posted a raw, emotional coming out video on her channel. Since then, she has become a tirless advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and representation. Her latest project, Cooking With Pride, is a web-series that queer invites chefs to teach viewers to make, and tell the stories behind, their favorite dishes.The holiday season is all about food and community. There’s no better time to show your support for food radio by becoming a member! Lend your voice and help HRN continue to spreading the message of equitable, sustainable, and delicious food – together, we can change minds and build a better food system. Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate today to become a crucial part of the HRN community.Image courtesy of photo by Ronald Justin Thompson.Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.  

More than Just Rainbow Cupcakes

When Bhavini Patadia met their now-girlfriend Saskia Ullman, they didn't even really drink beer- they just drank it to impress her. On today's episode, both Bhavini and Saskia tell the story of how that initial attempts to woo a girl led to the founding of Queer Beer: a full-fledged brewery driven by the goal of creating space for and giving back to London's LGBTQ+ community. Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.  

Episode 10: Cheers for Queer Beer!

As big (an often fraught) holidays approach, we're feeling grateful for spaces where we can gather around a table with queer chosen family. On today's episode, we travel through space and time to two such spaces: the storied "lesbian potluck," and its more modern, Brooklynite rendition: Queer Soup Night.Join Heritage Radio Network on Monday, November 11th, for a raucous feast to toast a decade of food radio. Our tenth anniversary bacchanal is a rare gathering of your favorite chefs, mixologists, storytellers, thought leaders, and culinary masterminds. We’ll salute the inductees of the newly minted HRN Hall of Fame, who embody our mission to further equity, sustainability, and deliciousness. Explore the beautiful Palm House and Yellow Magnolia Café, taste and imbibe to your heart’s content, and bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences and tasty gifts for any budget at our silent auction. Tickets available now at heritageradionetwork.org/gala.Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.  

Spaces for Joy

Join us this week for a conversation with the deligtful Edd Kimber, winner of the very first season of The Great British Bake Off. He joins Nico to talk about about what his life was like before the show and the twists and turns its taken in the 9 years since.Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.

The Sweet Stuff With Edd Kimber

A show about the joyful, messy, radical magic that happens in spaces where queerness and food intersect. In conversation with farmers, chefs, activists, historians, seed savers and business babes, host Nico Wisler explores the idea of “queer food” in all of its limitless forms.