I'm a happy subscriber, love @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social's writing.

THANK YOU it's really truly a bargain even if all you do is read and don't come to the events or participate in the Discord—but they're there for you if you ever feel like joining!

Giving folks the opportunity to pay me as little as $5 or as much as $100 per month (with $10 in between). www.aliciakennedy.news/upgrade

April Book of the Month 📚: “On Eating” by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social The writer’s new memoir is a feast, exploring how food can be both deeply personal and impacted by forces much larger than ourselves.

A great review of my new book at The Conversationalist: conversationalist.org/2026/04/29/b...

This isn’t performative they literally want us in factories

Our Salon with Amber Husain, author of 'Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live' is up (preview for all, full conversation for members): www.aliciakennedy.news/p/the-desk-s...

The difference between people who almost always open but don't pay (nearly 15K folks) and folks who do pay is definitely click-through rate, which is interesting. People who pay are always clicking around, so what I'm getting is that these are observers but not readers (I mostly link books).

Is it too bourgeois to have TASTE when one travels for work a lot?

I'm giving readers my unfiltered hotel thoughts on Monday — and naming the ones I like and the ones I don't — and am worried people will hate me for it while other people send out Amazon affiliate links!!!!!!!

TODAY at 11 am EST talking to @lizpelly.bsky.social about MOOD MACHINE and the tech industry’s effects on culture. Desk members join + get the recording free. Anyone else can purchase for $10. alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...

BlueSky basically useless on this question despite being loudly anti-Substack lol

tomorrow! very excited to be in conversation with my favorite food writer @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social for her salon series. it's happening online at 11am and you can join us >>> alicia-kennedy.com/salon/p/the-...

This is what I'm struggling with! How do I convey the fact that you get access to so many people via the Discord and Salon Series in a way that's way less "active" than people assume?

What are folks looking for these days from newsletters they pay to subscribe to? I'm not planning to change my structure but I am interested in opinions.

On the day my book came out, I realized I have an undeniable bunion on my left foot—an affliction I did not think was real.

Come for the book tour write up, stay for the obligatory Knausgård!

This is EXACTELY what I needed to start my morning!!

BOOK TOUR RECAP — a lot of recs, a lot of writer anxiety www.aliciakennedy.news/p/martinis-u...

"Each of these writers is asking the reader to think beyond the human without shifting one’s care entirely away from it" -Alicia Kennedy

“You have to appeal to either one of those things, in order to get to most people.” In a new Public Thinker with B. R. Cohen, Alicia Kennedy identifies appetite and nostalgia as keys to telling stories about food.

Me trying to explain my new book being a blend of food memoir and cultural criticism:

BALTIMORE! Come to Red Emma’s tonight! withfriends.co/event/277770...

Really thrilled to welcome the brilliant food writer @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social back to Baltimore to talk about her new book “On Eating” this Wednesday!!! RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/277770...

Not enough people had teachers who challenged them when they said “I feel” to assess whether they meant “I think” or “I know” and it shows all over social media lol

People often ask me what I “think” about food celebrities but what they mean is how do I “feel,” because in thinking I’ll situate them in a broader food media and cultural context recognizing systemic issues etc.

The current political interest in protecting animals only extends to some: It includes pedigreed pets and lab-tested animals but leaves out farmed animals, who suffer greatly in the industrial system. Learn more in our latest by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social:

a lot of people who marry young are delusional because they're hyper religious and surrounded by other delusional hyper religious people and need to maintain status with their in-group

Entangled States will be published in exactly a month and I’m both so excited and so nervous. I really hope it’ll find its people, and if that’s you you can already preorder it!

“My way of writing about food came through the experience of going vegan, accidentally running a small vegan food business, and then, incidentally, trying to run an ethically sourced vegan food business.”

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

“And then I accidentally started a vegan bakery on Long Island.” In a new Public Thinker, Alicia Kennedy talks with B. R. Cohen about her journey from copyeditor to bakery owner; from omnivore to vegan, and much more:

“The food is expensive for a variety of reasons, many made worse because of the colonial structures that now lead to tourist dependency.” New at PB: Alicia Kennedy discusses food access in Puerto Rico–and paths toward the decolonization of food writing.

i love @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social’s food writing but i also selfishly! love her writing about losing her brother. i’ve never really read anyone writing about the relationship with your mother in the aftermath as well as the weird stuff people say while you are the alive child still standing there

This week on the podcast, I speak with writer @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about her new memoir, On Eating. We discuss her process for weaving personal & cultural histories of ingredients, and unpacking Western appetites through food labour considerations. Listen! www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ali...

“How do we get beyond ‘yum’ when we’re talking about food?” New at PB: Alicia Kennedy on how she took inspiration from Anya Von Bremzen’s concept of removing the “yum, yum” from food writing. @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social

ON EATING reviewed in the NYT. Please remember “tortuous” means long and windy and isn’t to be mistaken for “torturous” lol www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

What if we imagined the fates of humans and animals as interconnected? @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social explores this question through an ecofeminist lens in our latest:

”I want students who are drawn to decolonizing food media to know that they have space to go there.” Alicia Kennedy’s “On Eating” is out today from Balance! @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social

New at PB: B. R. Cohen talks with @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about her new work, “On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites” (out today!) and how she became a food writer who “is both outside and inside the academy and is read across both.”

really appreciated @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social’s essay about the many reasons why being on substack was not aligned with how she wanted to work or publish. (also she has a book coming out tomorrow) www.aliciakennedy.news/p/so-i-moved...

Darling!!!

I have to obsessively promote because (1) it’s not a debut (2) the media landscape only cares about celebrities or the very wealthy re: memoir

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow—my new book! So far everyone is saying nice things! www.aliciakennedy.news/p/new-post

I wrote about the incoherence of MAHA when it comes to animals and the new ecofeminist writing providing a way toward clearer thinking. foodprint.org/blog/fates-o...

every time i see professional photos of a media party… i think… "losers…" ... sorry... lol

personally extremely pumped for this one and you still have time to preorder!

Talked to GUTS about IRREVERENCE. gutsmagazine.substack.com/p/on-irrever...

In which RAJ PATEL suggests you preorder my book ON EATING, out on TUESDAY! newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/alicia-ken...