In an It’s Nice That POV column, Kieran Yates argues that mainstream food culture, driven by trends and style, routinely ignores Disabled and chronically ill people for whom cooking is hard work. Yates points to two self-published books as the alternative: Sonali Menezes’s Depression Cooking and Aisha Mirza’s misery meals, a crip community anti-cookbook. The argument is that designers and publishers have the tools to widen who food culture speaks to.
