Rosa K

“Flavor was and is secondary to symbolism when it comes to eating meat or rejecting it.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“In contrast, black nationalist eaters saw their food practices as an aspect of nation-building. They wanted to create a black nation that operated in lockstep, unified by ideological and cultural goals. Black culinary radicals used ideas about food as a means to opt out of white U.S. culture and into a black cultural nation.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“be plant-based should not just mean rejecting industrial agriculture; it should encompass supporting local agriculture that allows for biodiversity and dignified lives for farmers.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“was inspired by the naturopath Alvenia M. Fulton to believe in diet as part of civil rights activism, “believing that bad diets bolstered the forces of white”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating