Alicia Kennedy is a food and culture writer.
Book Club
Dec 1, 2025
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5 min read
We’ll be doing our first cookbook.
Salon Series
Nov 24, 2025
14 min read
The question that birthed more questions.
Nov 21, 2025
6 min read
A new piece at the Yale Review, and much more!
Nov 17, 2025
How to have a veg-centric celebration, with two great cookbook authors.
The Monthly Menu
Nov 14, 2025
7 min read
Plus: Inspiration from a restaurant salad got us through a rough week at home.
Nov 10, 2025
4 min read
My next book is out on April 14, 2026.
Recommends
Nov 7, 2025
11 min read
The culture roundup for this month.
Nov 3, 2025
9 min read
Riding trains, listening to Paul Simon, and turning 40.
Oct 31, 2025
10 min read
Catch up on October at From the Desk.
Oct 27, 2025
8 min read
Experiencing the disappearance of time.
Oct 24, 2025
All the ways we can work together right now.
Oct 20, 2025
Looking at reality, with journalists Alice Driver and Melissa Montalvo.
Oct 17, 2025
The embedded discourse of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.
Oct 13, 2025
3 min read
A $7 used book that caught my eye and changed my work.
Oct 10, 2025
It was a month of food on the go.
Oct 6, 2025
A lot of activity and learning were packed into it.
Oct 3, 2025
Let me serve you the recommendations for the month.
Sep 29, 2025
2 min read
How to come home without relying on takeout.
Sep 26, 2025
And a cookbook roundtable coming up.
Sep 22, 2025
12 min read
An updated piece on why I hate this phrase.
Sep 19, 2025
The 1970 hybrid cookbook-memoir by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is a classic.
Sep 15, 2025
How to make vegan muffins from anything.
Sep 12, 2025
The Monthly Menu covers the eating, cooking, and drinking of July and August.
Sep 8, 2025
Wherever you think the piña colada originated tells me everything.
Sep 5, 2025
Also: Here’s the Recommends...—reading, movies, TV, art, music—for the month.
