JUNE 26TH, HOSTED AT PLATFORM, PIER 57, NYC - SOLD OUT: In collaboration with The James Beard Foundation, we celebrated Pride Month in New York City with an all-star chef team—Tiffani Faison, Elizabeth Falkner, Arnold Myint, Eric See, and sommelier Eric Fleming—paying tribute to pioneering queer chefs. Their menu applauds those that paved the way for queer chefs—from Florent Morellet of the famed Meat Packing District’s Florent to Thailand’s first transgender international supermodel turned street food vendor, Ornapa Krisapee “Ma.” We had a wonderful time honoring queer culinary heritage and its influence. We heard from author and journalist John Birdsall about the history of defining queer food, heard from our chefs about their own experiences of queer life in the kitchen, and tasted incredible queer-made wines while hearing more about their stories from sommelier Eric Fleming.