On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites
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For a limited time we have copies signed by Alicia Kennedy.
Alicia Kennedy has spent years thinking seriously and writing about what and how we eat, and this book is an honest account of where that thinking has led: into the tensions between pleasure and responsibility, desire and ethics, personal history and broader questions of labor and environment. Structured as a series of essays rather than a memoir with a single arc, it moves between memory, cooking, and cultural commentary.
Episodes from Kennedy's life set the stage: early meals, learning to cook, the choices made and reconsidered over a career in food writing. Questions of sustainability, tradition, and desire run through all of it, provide a framework for thinking about eating as both necessity and expression.
For readers who want food writing that acknowledges the contradictions of eating thoughtfully in a contemporary context rather than resolving them too quickly.
Hardcover.
Published on April 14, 2026
