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Mar 17, 2025 | 
thisneedshotsauce.substack.com | Abigail Koffler |Haley Nahman |Alicia Kennedy
I was a little grumpy when I first started writing today. My personal laptop is in a phase of losing battery very quickly. The Genius bar says it should be working fine, but it took over 20 minute to open up this Substack draft. It’s at once humid (78%) and chilly, which is no one’s preferred weather. First amendment rights are in danger, as are many other rights.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
thisneedshotsauce.substack.com | Abigail Koffler |Hunter Harris |Alicia Kennedy |J Wortham
Hi friends,I’m back in New York after an incredible trip to Sri Lanka with Earthfoam. We learned a lot and saw many parts of the absolutely beautiful country. I was so impressed with their operations and their commitment to fair trade (plus, it’s really cool to see how a mattress is made from trees, from the forest to the factory). We traveled with a great group and everyone on the Earthfoam team could not have been lovelier. Everyone who visited is already plotting a return trip.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Anna Sulan Masing |Alicia Kennedy
I’ve been awash in forthcoming books. Anna Sulan Masing and Mayukh Sen—this Sunday!—have been part of my new Salon Series, and those interviews will be transcribed and available for paid subscribers in due time, but I wanted to shout out some of the books I haven’t been able to give a big splashy moment. It’s a bizarre time for writers and book promotion, and so I want to make sure these are on your radar.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
jill.substack.com | Grace Byron |Timothy Snyder |Moira Donegan |Alicia Kennedy
Photo by Tayloron UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
November, because of the close proximity of our wedding anniversary and my birthday, always promises a bit more dining out than usual. And December was a month of all sorts of end-of-year and holiday stress, and the cooking reflected that. Get the rundown below, along with the story of my multiple large eggplant parm sandwiches and the emergence of a new tofu favorite, so soon after declaring another.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Banana Yoshimoto |Alicia Kennedy
Mushroom au poivre was suddenly everywhere. My husband was flipping through Bon Appétit and pointed it out to me, then sent me a New York Times Cooking post on Instagram. The message was clear: He wanted to eat mushroom au poivre. I found the Times has portobello and maitake versions on their site. All of these variations called for heavy cream, and so I pushed it to Christmas. Heavy cream is a holiday-only kind of ingredient in my life.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
Focus has been a challenge the last couple of months. It was the holidays; we’re in the middle of a prolonged moving process and job search for my husband; the edits on my next book came through; and…
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
Call it the test kitchen–ification of food media. The dreaded pivots to video of the media business in the 2010s culminated in the runaway success of Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, where recipe developers were turned into online cooking superstars. Every regular viewer chose a favorite. This success imploded in 2020, as so many things did, when then–editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport was outed for racist behavior and Sohla El-Waylly opened up about pay disparities.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
In 2025, I’m going to be leaning more into cultivating the conversations I want to see in the world. Between workshops and our weekly Salon chats, I’ve been really enjoying getting to know more of this international, extremely well-read, very politically engaged community—and am even becoming comfortable referring to it as such.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
Buy an oyster holder. Every day, multiple times a day, I drop my wedding rings into an oyster shell. This is, I’m convinced, the only reason I haven’t lost them. My mom uses oysters we’ve eaten or recovered to create these keepsakes, which are dipped in resin to retain their shine. To enter the giveaway, please comment with your email address. The winners will be selected randomly and contacted within 24 hours. Only paid subscribers are eligible.
