Episode 2: That Ate with Telly Justice + HAGS
What if fine dining didn’t come with exclusivity, hierarchy, or a single way to belong?
Justin Burke sits down with Telly Justice, co-owner and chef of HAGS, a trans-owned, queer-focused fine dining restaurant in New York City’s East Village that’s redefining what fine dining can be—and who gets...
Episode 4: That Ate with Sana Javeri Kadri + Asha Loupy
How much do you really know about your spices?
In Episode Four of That Ate, Justin Burke is joined by Sana Javeri Kadri, founder of Diaspora Spice Co., and Asha Loupy, the company’s recipe editor and co-author of The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook.
They talk about disrupting the traditional spice ...
Episode 5: That Ate with Jaya Saxena
What is queer food writing, and where is it going?
In episode five of That Ate, Justin Burke is joined by award-winning food writer Jaya Saxena to dig into exactly that. Because food writing isn’t just about what we're eating; it’s how we talk about people, culture, politics, identity, and the w...
Episode 285 – Heated Rivalry
We conclude our arbitrary celebration of Canada Month with a playoff episode that went into overtime. Yes: we read Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. We needed two guests to handle a title of this magnitude, so we were joined by fangirl in STEM Sarah and authentic Canadian/Canadien Kathleen Gros...
Chef Karen Akunowicz: A Maine Lobster Meal
Chef Karen Akunowicz is a Northeast gal through and through. The James Beard Award winning Top Chef alum is chef-owner of Boston’s Bar Vulpe and Fox and the Knife, named best new restaurant in America in 2019 by Food & Wine Magazine, Eater and USA Today. And her last meal is sun-drenched and summ...
Executive Ordered Out of Existence Pt. 3
We take a bite out of THE BIG ONE – the final installment of Executive Ordered out of Existence, where we’ll cover the calamity that was September 2025 through December 2025 and what fresh hell delivered us into the new year.
We’ll talk about the death of a deity-ified podcaster, the heftiest he...
Embracing the Funk: Saeng Douangdara on “The Lao Kitchen”
Episode 2
We speak with food content creator Saeng Douangdara about his new cookbook, The Lao Kitchen, and an upcoming event May 1 at MOFAD with drag performer Jujubee.
We also continue exploring the street food in our Brooklyn neighborhood, DUMBO. Ivan and volunteers Aidan and Brittany visit a...
27. Have Your Gay and Eat It Too: A Queer History of Cake
As Marie Antoinette definitely once said: Let them serve 💅🏼 cake. In our first standalone episode in literal months, Julia and Nicole talk about what this episode is NOT about, the historical layers of cake, and the popcorn crimes of Mary Hamilton Talbott. Join us from our flying kitchen as we an...
Queer Food Stories
Every Labor Day weekend, tens of thousands of members of the LGBTQ community from around the world gather in New Orleans for the five-day party known as Southern Decadence. To celebrate, this week, we bring you stories of culinarians expressing queerness through food.
First, we hear from John Bir...
