Food writer Jesse Szewczyk and Buzzfeed’s Tasty have joined forces in a most delicious and meaningful way.

Their new cookbook, “Tasty Pride: 75 Recipes and Stories from the Queer Food Community” (Clarkson Potter; $25), a bright collection of scrumptious dishes and inspiring, personal snippets, lands during a Pride Week that will go down in history for not having parades due to the pandemic, but that also coincided with the Supreme Court ruling protecting gay, lesbian and transgender employees from being disciplined, fired or turned down for a job based on their sexual orientation.

Jesse Szewczyk and Tasty are behind this new collection from prominent queer cooks and foodies. (Lauren Volo) 

Even in these uncertain times, “Tasty Pride,” which benefits GLADD, will make you want to throw a socially-distanced Pride party with recipes from some of the industry’s brightest chefs, writers and activists, like Antoni Porowski, Melissa King, Elizabeth Faulkner and the Bay Area’s own Preeti Mistry, John Birdsall, Sara Kirnon and Elazar Sontag.

Sontag’s craveable Popcorn with Roasted Almonds and Nori is comfort food infused with umami — and a sweet history. As a bashful middle schooler, Sontag attended queer youth group meetings where he never spoke but found comfort tucked into one of the couches, feasting on plastic cupfuls of snacks, including popcorn.

Boston’s Tiffani Faison, who was cast on the very first season of Bravo’s “Top Chef” and now owns four highly-acclaimed restaurants, shares her Chicken Orzo Soup with Lemon and Herbs with a story about making the soup to nourish others, from a friend dying of lung cancer to her wife’s rather dreary case of the flu. It is rare for recipe headnotes to carry so much heart and vulnerability in 100 words or so, but “Tasty Pride” does it again and again, giving us accessible recipes and stories about resilience, acceptance and self-discovery.

Take Birdsall’s six-ingredient Leg of Lamb with Tangerine Juice and Calvados, inspired by the food writer’s soul-searching in 1980s San Francisco, where he found his tribe not “in the hustler scene on Polk Street or the leather bars South of Market” but at the home of a fellow queer cook and book worm, who made him a similar dish from “The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book,” circa 1954.

Add in Tasty’s technicolor pizzazz and “Tasty Pride” is a must-have for home cooks looking for yummy, accessible recipes with soul.