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The Kind Diet

book by Alicia Silverstone

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16954673 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet is a 2009 vegan cookbook written by actress and animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone.

Silverstone told New York Times interviewer Patrick Healy that for three years she has turned down roles in films and television to have time to work on her book, as well as do plays.

A follow-up book was published in 2014, The Kind Mama.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Kind Diet” as book by Alicia Silverstone. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kind, Diet and book.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kind, Diet and book providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16954673. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Kind Diet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.