Book #25: No Meat Required
Examining and re-imagining our relationship to veganism.
We’re Book Club for the Planet, a book club dedicated to reading about the climate crisis in community. Want to see all of the 2024 book picks and recommendations in one place? Check out my shop link at Bookshop.org. Need a refresher for how book club works? Right this way.
No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy
I had been reading Alicia Kennedy’s Substack, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, for a couple of years before she announced she was writing a book. She writes a lot about veganism, but that’s not why I followed her; I followed her for her writing, which is very, very smart. She just happens to write about food, often vegan, with a lot of grace, awareness, and originality. Our first book club book was about the future of food and took a high-tech approach to solving the coming crises; I have a feeling this one will be quite different.
Book club dates: November 17 (virtual); November 18 (in-person; formerly Nov. 11)
For continued reading, please check out We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer; An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler; Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson; Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino; and Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo.
Don’t live in Baltimore? Join us virtually via Google Meets!
If you live in or near Baltimore, join us at Greedy Reads' Remington location for an in-person meet-up! NOTE: In-person date was formerly 11/11; it has been moved back to 11/18 due to my own scheduling conflicts. Thanks for your understanding!
Happy reading and see you next month! ✨