8 best-selling history books like No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy

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No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

By: Alicia Kennedy

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the sub…

If you liked the history plot in No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Heroines

By: Kate Zambreno

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking th… read more

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2. Thin Skin: Essays

By: Jenn Shapland

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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4. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By: Anya von Bremzen

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more

Similar categories in Anya von Bremzen's National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
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7. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Goth: A History

By: Lol Tolhurst

3.68

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Following his memoir  Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Goth: A History book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
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11. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Erdozain's One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

Similar categories in Johann Hari's Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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14. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

Similar categories in Kōhei Saitō's Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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15. No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

By: Alicia Kennedy

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the sub… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • audiobook
  • history
  • unfinished
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • vegan
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • food writing
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16. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

By: Rebecca May Johnson

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca May Johnson's Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • audiobook
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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17. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. A Long Time Dead

By: Samara Breger

3.79

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian romance, drenched in blood and drama, about t… read more

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4.46

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4.30

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4.13

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3.55

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3.60

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Angela Hui

3.90

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