Alicia Kennedy is a food and culture writer.
Mar 16, 2026
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13 min read
Abuse in fine dining, but not of farm or meat processing workers.
The Monthly Menu
Mar 13, 2026
9 min read
Plus: the eating, cooking, and drinking of the last month.
Salon Series
Mar 9, 2026
10 min read
Plus: Ashanté M. Reese is on this week's episode of "On Appetite."
Recommends
Mar 6, 2026
12 min read
But who is? Plus, the culture recommendations for the month.
Mar 2, 2026
What is this stuff I’ve brought into my kitchen?
Interviews
Feb 23, 2026
11 min read
A word I’m deeply obsessed with, and a new podcast.
Book Club
Feb 20, 2026
5 min read
Humanizing the effects of war on cuisine.
Feb 16, 2026
An admission of my palate's limitations.
Feb 13, 2026
Hilda Deli is serving a needed grocery niche, and more eating, cooking, and drinking.
+1
Feb 9, 2026
The Salon Series conversation with Anny Gaul.
Feb 6, 2026
15 min read
On making culture into ritual, and the monthly recommendations.
Feb 2, 2026
How bread and sweets can introduce people to new ways of thinking about food.
Jan 30, 2026
Perhaps you didn’t even notice, but I have some instructions, data, and insight to share.
Lectures
Jan 26, 2026
But the U.S. government isn't big on reality.
Jan 23, 2026
6 min read
Anny Gaul’s work brings new dimensions to discussing “national” food history.
Jan 19, 2026
Initiation, digestion, and craft.
Jan 16, 2026
8 min read
& more eating in New York, Copenhagen, and San Juan. Plus: recipe updates!
Jan 12, 2026
An admission; or, all the lies I've told myself.
Jan 9, 2026
The books, articles, movies, art, music, and more I've been into lately.
Travel
Jan 5, 2026
Gushing about a city I visited for six days—embarrassing!
Dec 17, 2025
26 min read
From 2020.
32 min read
From 2021
37 min read
From 2021.
36 min read
31 min read
