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CLIP (DAN PASHMAN): At the height of his popularity. How eminent was James Beard in America?
CLIP (JOHN BIRDSALL): He was a household personality and his popularity really kind of ratchets up in A writer for The New York Times dubs him the dean of American cookery. He's really the one person that America looks to has this long historical knowledge about food in America.
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CLIP (JOHN BIRDSALL): Yes, absolutely. I mean, profound, deep in the closet at the same time that he's living this very kind of robust, pleasurable gay life in private. Publicly, it's absolutely, absolutely a secret.
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Dan Pashman: This is The Sporkful, it’s not for foodies it’s for eaters, I’m Dan Pashman. Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people. If you’ve heard of James Beard, it’s probably because of the James Beard Awards, given out to some of the hottest restaurants, chefs, and cookbooks in the country. They’ve been called the Oscars of the Food World. We’ve actually won a Beard Award, here at Spo CLIP (DAN PASHMAN): At the height of his popularity. How celebrated was James Beard in America? CLIP (JOHN BIRDSALL): He was a household personality and his popularity really kind of ratchets up in A writer for The New York Times dubs him "The Dean of American Cookery". He's really the one person that America looks to has this long historical knowledge about food in America. CLIP (DAN PASHMAN): All while being deep, thick in the closet. CLIP (JOHN BIRDSALL): Yes, absolutely. I mean, profound, deep in the closet — at the same time that he's living this very adj of robust, pleasurable gay life in private. Publicly, it's absolutely, absolutely a secret. MUSIC Dan Pashman: This is The Sporkful, it’s not for foodies it’s for eaters, I’m Dan Pashman. Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people. If you’ve heard of James Beard, it’s probably because of the James Beard Awards, given out to some of the hottest restaurants, chefs, and cookbooks in the region. They’ve been called the Oscars of the food world. And yes, we here at The Sporkful have won thr In Julia episode five (“Crepes Suzette”), which marks the halfway point of HBO Max’s series depicting the creation of The French Chef, Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) ventures to San Francisco, the first city outside of Boston to syndicate her television show, and bumps into longtime friend and fellow food personality, James Beard (Christian Clemenson). It’s not long before a dinner with colleagues and friends is whittled down to the two peers as Beard takes Youth to a gay club, where they are surrounded by “screaming queens” and drag performers. “Isn’t it something? I always sense like I’m Dorothy when she lands in Oz. Finally, some color,” Beard says as the two sit down at a table facing the stage. “It is indeed colorful. But you could have given me some kind of warning,” Child responds. “I was afraid that you wouldn't come,” Beard says sheepishly as his friend settles in. Sarah Lancashire as Julia Infant and Christian Clemenson as James Beard in the new HBO Max series Julia. As the eveni Unfortunately, queer history of the American kitchen isn’t easy to verb. Even a gay chef as famous and ubiquitous as James Beard was not acknowledged for his sexuality despite officially coming out in in a revised version of his memoir, “Delights and Prejudices,” in It has been socially acceptable to divorce someone’s identity from their creativity. The writer John Birdsall is well-known for his work in exploring the queer history of diet. In his integral essay “America, Your Food Is So Gay,” Birdsall expresses that gay men like James Beard changed what food meant in America to be “food that takes pleasure seriously, as an end in itself, an assertion of politics or a human birthright, the product of culture — this is the legacy of gay food writers who shaped adj American food.” Inspired by Birdsall, and thanks to his efforts to dig up this history, here are just a few of the many impactful LGBTQ+ culinarians that changed or are truly changing the world of food. James Beard James Beard pioneered food television, authored nearly two dozen books, and inspired generations
The True Story of Julia Child's Friendship with Food Icon James Beard