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Salon Series

Collective conversations with authors, editors, and other culture workers.

Salon Series

Is Cookbook Criticism Possible?

Nov 24, 2025

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14 min read

Is Cookbook Criticism Possible?

The question that birthed more questions.

Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy

Salon Series

A Plant-Based Holiday

Nov 17, 2025

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6 min read

A Plant-Based Holiday

How to have a veg-centric celebration, with two great cookbook authors.

Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy

Salon Series

The Stakes of Meat

Oct 20, 2025

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11 min read

The Stakes of Meat

Looking at reality, with journalists Alice Driver and Melissa Montalvo.

Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy

Salon Series

“Reading Makes You a Different Person”

Sep 1, 2025

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49 min read

“Reading Makes You a Different Person”

A conversation with author Anya von Bremzen.

Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy

Salon Series

“Is This Real for Me?”
LockSimple

Jun 9, 2025

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2 min read

“Is This Real for Me?”

A conversation with author Jill Damatac on mythology, recipes, and legibility.

Salon Series

“We’ve Won a Certain Kind of Argument”
LockSimple

May 21, 2025

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2 min read

“We’ve Won a Certain Kind of Argument”

A conversation with Pam Brunton on landscape cuisine, writing history, and public imagination.

Salon Series

“That Process of Identifying the Story”
LockSimple

Apr 7, 2025

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51 min read

“That Process of Identifying the Story”

A conversation with Layla Schlack on editing, cookbook trends, and more.

Salon Series

“An Intellectual Architecture”
LockSimple

Mar 10, 2025

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2 min read

“An Intellectual Architecture”

A conversation with writer Carina del Valle Schorske on research, profile writing, and voice.

Salon Series

“A Flesh and Blood Portrait”
LockSimple

Feb 24, 2025

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2 min read

“A Flesh and Blood Portrait”

A conversation with Mayukh Sen about ‘Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star.’

Salon Series

“I Like Being Brutal”

Feb 10, 2025

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3 min read

“I Like Being Brutal”

A conversation with Dr. Anna Sulan Masing about identity, durian, and writing.

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