This article posted by Reneice Charles on May 8, 2018 showcases her recommendations for queer individuals of color to discover cooking recipes that fit in with their cultural identities. She explains in the article that queer people of color are underrepresented in the culinary world, and that there must be a promotion of queer chefs of color in the culinary industry. Therefore, this article compiles a list of seven different cookbooks created by queer chefs with many of the cookbooks including different cultural dishes and ingredients in the recipes.
After initially seeing this article, it made me wonder what makes as cookbook, queer. What was different about a queer cookbook than a regular cookbook? Well, to begin with, there is not a specific type of food that the LGBTQ+ community only eats; we are not that quirky. However, it more-so brings awareness of the queer individuals in the culinary world, especially with representation with queer individuals of color! They bring in the different cultural dishes that helps bring in their intersectional identities even in their cooking recipes. It also shows how there are successful queer chefs in the culinary industry, such as Gabrielle Hamilton who had opened her own restaurant in New York City nineteen years ago! The best part about this is that because there is constantly food pictures being posted on social media, this cookbook allows queer individuals of color to add more diversity to their #foodie posts!
In The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook, a really interesting part of this cookbook is that individuals can actually use the hashtag posted at the end of the recipe in order to promote their food, and the author actually says that she checks these hashtags on a regular. The recipes are very down to earth, and she actually wishes for individuals to posts pictures of the recipes on social media for others to view because her recipes are not so precise that there is only one way to follow the recipe. Therefore, she made it so that the dishes that individuals create are not typically the same from someone else who would recreate the recipe because everyone has different preferences when it comes to food!