Food and Beverage: “HOW TO BE A FILIPINO HOT BUN” by Casey Harloe
“Flower yourself / Until you can’t recognize what exists underneath. Until you / Are diminished.”
Food and Beverage: “Queer Canapés & Other Morsels” by Adrian Dallas Frandle
“Many of us feel more comfortable in “the back of the house” because that is where flavor originates. Where the cooking happens.”
Food and Beverage: “The Fridge” by Mordecai Martin
“What if the fridge is the hearth inverted, the homestead represented, not by flickering warmth, but by frigid eternity?”
Food and Beverage: “Rice for Quapas” by Alison Lubar
“Figure out what is missing and learn to live without it.”
Food and Beverage: “A Brief History of Anpan” by Sanat Ranadive
“Sacred foods taste better, / but they always come with rules.”
Food and Beverage: “Deluxe” by Megan Alyse
“It’s salt and pleasure, at the end of it, before/ the daylight, that I want.”
Food and Beverage: “Staff Meal” by Diana Fu
“In this country, to be palatable / is to swim and drown at the same time.”