All You Can Eat: Why We Love Friendsgiving

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Friendsgiving can take many forms. Sometimes it’s a replacement for a more traditional Thanksgiving when gathering with family isn’t possible. For others, it’s a bonus holiday to honor friends who feel like family. The ritual has deep roots in the queer community where it emerged in the 1980s as a way to unite chosen families and challenge restrictive family norms. For our next installment of All You Can Eat, KQED food editor Luke Tsai joins us to talk about how to successfully pull off a Friendsgiving meal and what it means. And, we want to hear from you: What is your Friendsgiving tradition? Guests: Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Olivia Cruz Mayeda, arts reporting intern, KQED; freelance journalist John Birdsall, author; freelance food writer Kim Knox, co-owner, Kim's Louisiana Fried Turkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	From Kikwede in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. Friendsgiving is for chosen family.
0:49.3	It's as much or as little of the ritual of the other giving as you want, with fewer of the holidays
0:54.6	problems and the same amount of food.
0:57.7	Today we'll talk with John Birdsall about the queer roots of Friendsgiving here in the Bay Area,
1:02.6	get some lessons on hosting your own, and share our favorite dishes to bring to the potluck.
1:07.9	This is, of course, our latest edition of All You Can Eat with Luke Sy, our biweekly
1:13.0	collaboration with KQED's food team, where we explore our region's food cultures. So today,
1:19.1	get out your apron, warm up your cider, it's Friendsgiving time. That's all coming up next
1:24.5	after this news.
1:37.4	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. This is our latest edition of All You Can Eat with Luke Sy, our regular collab with the brains and hearts and stomachs of the KQED food team.
1:46.5	Today we tackle Friendsgiving, whether it's a replacement for the traditional Thanksgiving
1:51.6	or a bonus holiday, and we're joined, as always, by Luke Sy, KQED food editor. Welcome.
2:01.3	Luke, our KQEDE Arts Reporting intern, Olivia Cruz Maeda, is an Oakland native who went to school
2:08.4	back east and didn't make financial or logistical sense to go home for Thanksgiving,
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