I’m a food and culture writer.

I’m a food and culture writer.

This has been my job title for a decade, and I’ve spent fifteen years working in media—from copyediting at New York to becoming a contributing writer at the Village Voice and, since 2020, publishing and growing my own newsletter that The Atlantic referred to as “a one-woman magazine that mixes cultural criticism, food writing, and food-world interviews with personal meditations, recommendations, and recipes…” 

My work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Vogue, Lux, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies—as well as many other outlets. An essay I wrote for MOLD was selected by Mark Bittman for inclusion in Best American Food Writing 2023; other editions have featured my pieces in the “notable” section. 

That one-woman magazine I run has been mentioned by the New York Times, Vogue, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, and many more outlets in the U.S. and internationally. From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, as it’s called, has over 35,000 subscribers and is much-talked-about, regularly taught, and cited in books and beyond. 

My own bestselling debut, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating, was published by Beacon Press in 2023 and has been translated into Portuguese for publication in Brazil. Col and Col, a Spanish publisher, has released Desde mi escritorio, a collection of my essays in translation. On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites, a memoir of food and place, is forthcoming from Hachette. My recipes have appeared in the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet and the James Beard Award–nominated Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking by Joe Yonan.

I teach in the gastronomy graduate program at Boston University and regularly speak in the U.S. and abroad, through university class visits, lectures, or talks. If you’d like to work together, invite me to speak, or have a conversation, please scroll down. For literary inquiries, my agent is Jenny Stephens at Sterling Lord Literistic.

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