Meet Your Maker: Author John Birdsall
Beloved author, John Birdsall, will be in the Farm Store signing copies of his new book, What Is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution. This culinary culture deep dive, What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution, explores how the Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives.
We will have copies of both his new book and his first book, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard on hand to buy. Grab a bottle of wine and one of the summer's going to be favorite beach reads.
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- Farm Store
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- [email protected]
John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses, and humming interior lives of James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, Esther Eng, and others who left an indelible mark on the culinary world from the margins. Queer food is brunch quiche à la Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney’s ecstatic salade composée, and Rainbow Ice-Box Cake from Ernest Matthew Mickler’s White Trash Cooking. It’s the intention surrounding a meal, the circumstances behind it, the people gathered around the table. With cinematic verve and prose that dazzles, What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution is a monumental work: a testament to food’s essential link to a modern queerness that reveals how, like fashion or tastes in music, food has become a language of LGBTQ+ identity.
- Contact:
- Farm Store
- Email:
- [email protected]
Getting to Granor Farm
Farm Store & Farm
3480 Warren Woods Road
Three Oaks, MI 49128
Greenhouse & School House
3520 Warren Woods Road
Three Oaks, MI 49128
From:
Downtown Three Oaks: Three Oaks Rd. (north) to Warren Woods Rd.
St. Joseph & Chicago: I-94 Exit 6 (Union Pier)
New Buffalo: Red Arrow Highway (north) to Warren Woods Rd.
Niles: Highway 12 West to Pardee Rd. to Warren Woods Rd.
We are located 7 miles east of Red Arrow Highway or 3 miles north of Highway 12 on Warren Woods Road, between Log Cabin Road and Pardee Road.
Events , What's happening on the farm this season
There’s a bunch of great reasons to visit the farm all year round, from our annual Seedling Sale, to visiting the Farm Store, to participating in our CSA or Farm Camp programs. Join us on Fridays and Saturdays for dinner in our state of the art Greenhouse!
Pop Up: Scout the Mobile Book Store
Scout, a freshly renovated 1965 Airstream turned mobile bookstore is pulling into Granor Farm!
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Scout is stocked with the latest in adult fiction, sizzling beach reads, and fun children’s books to inspire their reading goals this summer.
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A portion of book sales will go to the local chapter of Blessings in a Backpack. Granor Farm is proud to support this organization that provides easy-to-prepare meals each weekend for children in the River Valley School District.
Youth Cooking Class
Our Youth Cooking Classes develop practical culinary skills in students aged 10-14. In each two-hour class, students will create a three course dinner to take home to their families. They will be provided with recipes, ingredients, and work together to make their meals. Students will learn basic knife safety skills, how to work safely in a kitchen, what and how to taste food while cooking, leaving with the satisfaction of knowing how to make an entire meal from start to finish and the joy of sharing food with loved ones.
