On Eating: A Conversation with Alicia Kennedy and Milena Pagan

Join us for an intimate evening in conversation with Alicia Kennedy and Milena Pagan.

There will be an active discussion and ample time for Q&A with opportunities to get your book signed!

From the publisher:

With lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world.
As a girl, I ate like a king.
So begins beloved author, journalist, and influencer Alicia Kennedy’s captivating new book. On Eating is more than a memoir; in true Alicia Kennedy style, it is also on desire, on the roles of women “in the kitchen,” on domesticity, on diaspora, on foodways and food sovereignty, on home and how we find home through food, on how food can help us bring us back to those we love.

Beautifully rooted in place—from Long Island (on oysters, on martinis) to San Juan (on plantains, on sugar), On Eating is not only a provocative bildungsroman and a celebration of appetite, it also challenges each of us to consider our own relationship with food, and how our need to eat—to live—impacts the world.
Ultimately, On Eating is a paean food and those who grow and cook it, asking the urgent questions in our world today about what and how we eat.

Alicia Kennedy

Alicia's work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Yale Review, Harper’s Bazaar, the Guardian, British Vogue, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies—as well as many other outlets. An essay she wrote for MOLD was selected by Mark Bittman for inclusion in Best American Food Writing 2023; other editions have featured my pieces in the “notable” section.

, a memoir of food and place, is forthcoming from Hachette on April 14, 2026. Her bestselling debut, , was published by Beacon Press in 2023. It was a finalist for a PROSE Award in the “media and cultural studies” category and has been translated into Portuguese for publication in Brazil. Col and Col, a Spanish publisher, has released Desde mi escritorio, a collection of essays in translation. Her recipes have appeared in the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet and the James Beard Award–winning Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking by Joe Yonan.

📝 Read her newsletter: https://www.aliciakennedy.news/
📸 Follow along on Instagram: @aliciadkennedy

Milena Pagan

Milena is the owner of Little Sister in Providence and Rebelle Artisan Bagels in Cambridge. Milena's endeavors have received recognition from national outlets like Bon Appétit & The New York Times, as well as the local media in RI. Shewas recognized by EY as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020. In 2023, I was recognized by the James Beard Foundation as a Best Chef: Northeast semifinalist.

📝 Read her Substack: https://milenapagan.substack.com/

📸 Follow along on Instagram: @milena.pagan

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