Episode 55: Alicia Kennedy

Food journalist Alicia Kennedy debunks “resilience”, critiques both America’s meat obsession and Silicon Valley’s food-tech paradigm, and elevates the humble veggie burger.

From https://alicia-kennedy.com/about : Alicia Kennedy is a writer from New York based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her weekly newsletter on food culture, politics, and media, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, has been mentioned by the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Eater, and other publications, and has over 14,000 subscribers.

Alicia has appeared on Good Morning America, the BBC World Service, WNYC’s “On the Media,” and CBC’s “Pop Chat.” Her writing has recently appeared at The Guardian, Time, The New Republic, Eater, and other outlets. She’s currently at work on a book about eating ethically for Beacon Press and writing vegan baking recipes for the forthcoming cookbook Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking by Joe Yonan.

For more of Alicia Kennedy’s writings: https://alicia-kennedy.com/writing

To subscribe to her newsletter: https://www.aliciakennedy.news

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Episode #55 Notes

1:00 - How did you get interested in food journalism?

3:30 - On writing style.

4:45 - Recipe development and food journalism.

6:30 - On the future of the veggie burger.

11:30 - On vegan cheese and category reinvention.

17:30 - Silicon Valley’s approach to alternative meat development.

21:00 - Is there such a thing as sustainable beef?

26:00 - On American meat consumption and rational goals.

28:20 - On the intersection of gender, race, meat, and COVID.

31:30 - Food activists in Puerto Rico.

38:10 - What’s wrong with resilience?

46:00 - Book recommendations!

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency - Andreas Malm

How To Blowup a Pipeline - Andreas Malm

The Gentrification of the Mind - Sarah Schulman

Let The Record Show - Sarah Schulman

Conflict Is Not Abuse - Sarah Schulman