The Desk Salon Series Invites Pam Brunton
Join me (Alicia Kennedy) and author and chef Pam Brunton for a one-hour conversation about her work and the 2025 Desk Book Club pick Between Two Waters: Heritage, Landscape and the Modern Cook.
There will be a 20- to 30-minute guided conversation, and then the space will open for a Q&A. The conversation will be recorded and transcribed for paid subscribers to From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy.
Paid subscribers attend free using the discount code found in their email headers or can contact me directly to obtain it. There are limited slots open for others.
WHEN
Sunday, May 18
1 p.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom—a link will be sent to attendees one hour before the event
ABOUT PAM
Pam Brunton has been a chef most of her adult life, and has been co-owner of multi-award winning Inver Restaurant in wild west Scotland since 2015. Pam has an MSc in Food Policy, and once worked for sustainable food charities Sustain and the Soil Association, campaigning for better food and farming. She writes, too, mostly about food, and has been published in Vittles and the Guardian newspaper, amongst others. In September 2024 her first book- “Between Two Waters-Heritage, Landscape and the modern cook” - was published by Canongate, to immediate popular and critical acclaim.
ABOUT ALICIA
Alicia Kennedy is a food and culture writer. She is the author of the bestselling book No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating and the forthcoming On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites. Desde mi escritorio, a collection of her essays in translation, was published in Spain, and her recipes have been included in Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Eating and the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet.
Her work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Mold, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lux, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies, and it has been anthologized in Best American Food Writing. She has given talks at MIT, Tufts University, Boston University, UC Berkeley, and more.
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, her weekly newsletter on culture, media, and politics, has 40,000 subscribers and has been mentioned in The New York Times, Vogue, The Nation, The Atlantic, and more outlets.
Join me (Alicia Kennedy) and author and chef Pam Brunton for a one-hour conversation about her work and the 2025 Desk Book Club pick Between Two Waters: Heritage, Landscape and the Modern Cook.
There will be a 20- to 30-minute guided conversation, and then the space will open for a Q&A. The conversation will be recorded and transcribed for paid subscribers to From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy.
Paid subscribers attend free using the discount code found in their email headers or can contact me directly to obtain it. There are limited slots open for others.
WHEN
Sunday, May 18
1 p.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom—a link will be sent to attendees one hour before the event
ABOUT PAM
Pam Brunton has been a chef most of her adult life, and has been co-owner of multi-award winning Inver Restaurant in wild west Scotland since 2015. Pam has an MSc in Food Policy, and once worked for sustainable food charities Sustain and the Soil Association, campaigning for better food and farming. She writes, too, mostly about food, and has been published in Vittles and the Guardian newspaper, amongst others. In September 2024 her first book- “Between Two Waters-Heritage, Landscape and the modern cook” - was published by Canongate, to immediate popular and critical acclaim.
ABOUT ALICIA
Alicia Kennedy is a food and culture writer. She is the author of the bestselling book No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating and the forthcoming On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites. Desde mi escritorio, a collection of her essays in translation, was published in Spain, and her recipes have been included in Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Eating and the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet.
Her work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Mold, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lux, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies, and it has been anthologized in Best American Food Writing. She has given talks at MIT, Tufts University, Boston University, UC Berkeley, and more.
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, her weekly newsletter on culture, media, and politics, has 40,000 subscribers and has been mentioned in The New York Times, Vogue, The Nation, The Atlantic, and more outlets.
Join me (Alicia Kennedy) and author and chef Pam Brunton for a one-hour conversation about her work and the 2025 Desk Book Club pick Between Two Waters: Heritage, Landscape and the Modern Cook.
There will be a 20- to 30-minute guided conversation, and then the space will open for a Q&A. The conversation will be recorded and transcribed for paid subscribers to From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy.
Paid subscribers attend free using the discount code found in their email headers or can contact me directly to obtain it. There are limited slots open for others.
WHEN
Sunday, May 18
1 p.m. EST
WHERE
Zoom—a link will be sent to attendees one hour before the event
ABOUT PAM
Pam Brunton has been a chef most of her adult life, and has been co-owner of multi-award winning Inver Restaurant in wild west Scotland since 2015. Pam has an MSc in Food Policy, and once worked for sustainable food charities Sustain and the Soil Association, campaigning for better food and farming. She writes, too, mostly about food, and has been published in Vittles and the Guardian newspaper, amongst others. In September 2024 her first book- “Between Two Waters-Heritage, Landscape and the modern cook” - was published by Canongate, to immediate popular and critical acclaim.
ABOUT ALICIA
Alicia Kennedy is a food and culture writer. She is the author of the bestselling book No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating and the forthcoming On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites. Desde mi escritorio, a collection of her essays in translation, was published in Spain, and her recipes have been included in Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Eating and the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet.
Her work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Mold, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lux, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies, and it has been anthologized in Best American Food Writing. She has given talks at MIT, Tufts University, Boston University, UC Berkeley, and more.
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, her weekly newsletter on culture, media, and politics, has 40,000 subscribers and has been mentioned in The New York Times, Vogue, The Nation, The Atlantic, and more outlets.