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Alicia Kennedy

@aliciadkennedy.bsky.social
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• culture worker • publisher aliciakennedy.news + TOMATOTOMATO.xyz • author of On Eating; No Meat Required; & Desde mi escritorio — all out now www.alicia-kennedy.com

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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 2h
Sometimes you have to remember that even though someone is replying to you, they’re not actually replying to you but to a figment of their imagination based on random, incomplete inputs. Because I'm very aware of this tendency, I try hard not to replicate it in my own behavior.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 4h
I've been thinking a lot about recipes for a piece that will be out this winter, and this has brought up for myself why I stopped developing recipes—basically, I felt like I'd written down all the recipes I had in me, though maybe in the future I'll have more? www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-the-rec...
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On the Recipe As Object
Overproduction is the norm, but who’s cooking all this stuff?
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 20h
When students ask how I start to write essays, I don't think they want me to tell them about spending a whole 40-hour work week reading.
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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) @kpc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It was such an honor and so fun to be part of this conversation. Do check it out for thoughts on scientific thinking, queer utopias and failures, and cooking as means of literally building up our loved ones.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I have two-hour food essay workshops coming up in late October and mid-November: alicia-kennedy.com/workshops
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Workshops — ALICIA KENNEDY
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yesterday’s Salon with @kpc.bsky.social and Joseph Osmundson moderated expertly by Raechel Anne Jolie was so stunning I just had to make it available for all. Watch here: www.aliciakennedy.news/p/the-desk-s...
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The Desk Salon with Karmela Padavic-Callaghan & Joseph Osmundson
Moderated by Raechel Ann Jolie.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The last chapter of On Eating is about water and coffee. This week I wrote about experiencing Puerto Rico’s water crisis and the fact that this is not a local issue but a global one: www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-water
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On Water
And an ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Today in two hours! Paid subscribers have the Zoom link in their email from Friday. alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...
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On Science Memoir with Karmela Padavic-Callaghan & Joseph Osmundson — ALICIA KENNEDY
Join us for a conversation on weaving the personal and the scientific together in memoir with two brilliant writers, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Joseph Osmundson, who have both put out genre-bending...
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s when I’ve taken an edible and ordered a beer that the kid decides to try me out on a new spritz recipe
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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@aliciadkennedy.bsky.social, NO MEAT REQUIRED author, is hosting a virtual event for fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @kpc.bsky.social, writer of ENTANGLED STATES, & Nat'l Book Award finalist @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social this Sunday! alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...
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On Science Memoir with Karmela Padavic-Callaghan & Joseph Osmundson — ALICIA KENNEDY
Join us for a conversation on weaving the personal and the scientific together in memoir with two brilliant writers, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Joseph Osmundson, who have both put out genre-bending...
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
added my bio to my newsletter site (i'm live-blogging all my newsletter upkeep updates here why not lol) and put a photo that will hopefully repel people who don't like "sharply worded opinions" www.aliciakennedy.news/about
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About | From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
A twice-weekly newsletter on food culture, media, and politics.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A little media criticism moment, a Sunday Salon reminder, and all of the culture recommendations for the month. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/should-gov...
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Should Government-Run Grocery Stores Be Ugly?
PLu
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, I'm glad no one sent me this Booklist blurb because it's wrong off the bat (it's my second fucking book) and does this deranged thing that many reviews have done, which is be really taken aback by my not eating meat and interpret it as a mandate lol
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interested in science memoir, hybrid memoir, queer memoir, or all of the above? Come to our salon on Sunday! alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...
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On Science Memoir with Karmela Padavic-Callaghan & Joseph Osmundson — ALICIA KENNEDY
Join us for a conversation on weaving the personal and the scientific together in memoir with two brilliant writers, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Joseph Osmundson, who have both put out genre-bending...
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For reasons of trying to beef up my bona fides as a public scholar, a very quick search turned up my newsletter cited in 6 dissertations and theses from the last couple of years.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I work too hard to post things on IG for people who live their lives on IG to comment that they love these ideas I'm putting in a carousel that are... based on my first book and my newsletter, which has been regularly published for 6.5 years.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I read my horoscope every day because sometimes it does kick my ass into gear (reminds me to nurture my garden so I do a bunch of newsletter upkeep and create some UTM links lol).
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have one of my lectures on self-publishing, How to Create an Editorial Vision, as a free download for signup, too: www.aliciakennedy.news/products/how...
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How to Create an Editorial Vision
A presentation on how various independent publications approach their editorial perspective—and what we can learn from them and apply to our own work.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you don't know about my twice-weekly newsletter on food culture, media, and politics, here's a primer: www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-the-arc...
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What Is From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy?
Get to know the landscape.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
during my brief break from talking for 4.5 hours straight i am mainlining Ricolas because i have such a weak-ass throat!
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sunday! alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...
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On Science Memoir with Karmela Padavic-Callaghan & Joseph Osmundson — ALICIA KENNEDY
Join us for a conversation on weaving the personal and the scientific together in memoir with two brilliant writers, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Joseph Osmundson, who have both put out genre-bending...
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"to name a problem makes you the problem" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.aliciakennedy.news/p/the-realit...
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The Reality Posture
How much real life should fiction contain?
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s a new issue of Tomato Tomato—a digital magazine of food writing about culture—out now, and I’ve also launched “The Review” vertical, for brief reviews and dispatches on an occasional basis. First up, a review of Ken Albala's new book! tomatotomato.xyz/the-review/t...
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‘The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks’ by Ken Albala — Tomato Tomato
Fermentation as land lies at the heart of Ken Albala’s new book, The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks . Albala begins this journey in Sub-Saharan Africa, a place often underacknowledged in...
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it "liberal posturing" to include realities of climate change and fascism in your novel? Considering the weird expectations of how to include politics in fiction (and, of course, food writing) this week. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/the-realit...
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The Reality Posture
How much real life should fiction contain?
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Perhaps a nice Sunday activity to read through these stories :)
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Leading a press release with how many social media followers someone has... does this ever actually work?
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have worked so hard on a piece for a little more than a month and right now I feel how I feel when I finish a book!!!
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TOMATO TOMATO 🍅 ISSUE 4 NOW LIVE tomatotomato.xyz/magazine/cat...
Table of contents for new issue
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why I am always telling y'all you want your raw oysters to be from very cold water, and why I, personally, do not eat Florida/Gulf oysters raw, ever. Warmer water = more bacteria, a problem climate change is exacerbating. Love, your friend the oyster shucker.
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Fifth Person in Florida Dies of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Raw Seafood
A fifth person in Florida has died of a flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to eating raw seafood as cases of Vibrio in the state continue to climb.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I never feel properly positioned to have anything go well,” I say, in a professional call about my career, lol
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Annoyed with the landlord so blasting LCD Soundsystem, the most elder millennial gringa thing I could be doing.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I also use this nasal spray for allergies and never got (symptomatic) Covid.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's scary to me how much people use social media but do not think at all about the ways in which all of the content is being produced, whether it's extracting energy from writers and artists they could use better elsewhere, whether it's denying them depth and agency...
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Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Loved this piece and thinking of all the brilliant-yet-underemployed (or underpaid) translators I know. “the translators are out there, likely ready for work, and where there is a language, there are writers, and where there are writers, one can assume there is food.”
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Received an email telling me there are new statements available in the Hachette Author Portal but I will not be looking at those...
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Revisiting this piece from 2020, "On Translation," where I was considering what it would be like if translation were a bigger part of food media, as I prepare to run two translated pieces in the new issue of Tomato Tomato, coming out Friday. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-transla...
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On Translation
and English's dominance of food media.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Revisiting a 2022 piece on the individualized food media attention economy. (It's only gotten worse!) www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-selling...
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On Selling a Lifestyle
The food content ouroboros.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
people are saying that this app has readers on it so i might have to make it the one to which i sacrifice my mental health
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I forgot to record our conversation with Kate Zambreno, so I wrote about the process of preparing the interview and offer my questions. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/i-forgot-t...
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I Forgot to Hit Record
How to prepare for
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A thing that I really want to convey in my work is that just because the overarching food narrative shows one thing, doesn't mean that thing had any influence on how most people ate. "Food culture" as it gets broadly historicized reflects a very particular milieu.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What I've been eating, cooking, drinking—and some housekeeping up top! www.aliciakennedy.news/p/take-the-t...
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Take the Two-Hour Mini Food Essay Workshop
Plus: Innovations in Cheap Lunch and more eating, cooking, & drinking
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My cultural criticism summer workshops were the most popular of the offerings but my cultural criticism post in my newsletter with selections from the syllabus was the least popular. You lit-er-ally can never know what people want so just do what you feel like doing!!!!!
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The Institute for Independent Journalists @indiejournalists.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s one thing we all have in common: food. Join our webinar on Sept. 25 to explore how to succeed as a freelancer on the food beat. Featuring Dr. Cynthia Greenlee of the Guardian, @jayasaxena.com, @soleilho.com, @hannaraskin.bsky.social, and @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social bit.ly/diginiij
IIJ Webinar
Dig In: How to Succeed on the Food Beat
Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 12:00-1:15 pm ET $30/Free for IIJ members
Register at TheIIJ.com
Cynthia Greenlee The Guardian
Jaya Saxena Ravenous
Soleil Ho
COYOTE Media
Hanna Raskin
The Food Section
Alicia Kennedy (moderator)
Author, On Eating
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To motivate myself to do the syllabus / course structure revamp that I’ve been mulling for months, I’m going to give a mini, two-hour version of the Food Essay in October and November. If you haven’t wanted to commit to 5 weeks & a ton of reading, this is for you! alicia-kennedy.com/workshops
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Workshops — ALICIA KENNEDY
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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"NYC might have Mamdani but the fooderati are being bamboozled." Great piece by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-food-fl...
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Is Food Flopping?
Or has it never really peaked?
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
IS FOOD FLOPPING? I ask in this week’s piece. I am very interested in how food media can present a picture of food culture that’s less repetitive in terms of geography, language, and taste—as well as whether the narratives it accepts as true are real at all! www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-food-fl...
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Is Food Flopping?
Or has it never really peaked?
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The Institute for Independent Journalists @indiejournalists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hungry for a career exploring the one thing we all have in common? Don’t miss our Sept. 25 webinar with independent food journalists Dr. Cynthia Greenlee of the Guardian, @jayasaxena.com, @soleilho.com, @hannaraskin.bsky.social, and @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social bit.ly/diginiij
IIJ Webinar
Dig In: How to Succeed on the Food Beat
Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 12:00-1:15 pm ET $30/Free for IIJ members
Register at TheIIJ.com
Cynthia Greenlee The Guardian
Jaya Saxena Ravenous
Soleil Ho
COYOTE Media
Hanna Raskin
The Food Section
Alicia Kennedy (moderator)
Author, On Eating
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When you read a lot of books these awards lists just seem more silly and arbitrary.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I loved working on a recent piece so much that today I thought, "I'm a little sad not to still be working on that piece"—I filed my first draft last week. Today, I got the first round of edits and they're juicy as hell. Back to work. (Luckily this is related subject matter to my next book proposal!)
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