As a girl, I ate like a king.

So begins the beloved author & journalist Alicia Kennedy’s captivating new book. On Eating traces Kennedy’s path from eater to cook, but it is more than a memoir. 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. On how we can eat for joy and justice. 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.

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Hardcover / 256 pages
Published 14 April 2026