Alicia Silverstone was but a teenager when she became the face of the 90s—with great, golden swept locks and a thousand catchphrases. (“As if!”) First as the ingénue in Aerosmith’s music videos, then as Cher Horowitz in Clueless, Silverstone set the tone for a decade’s style and schoolgirl ’tude. Since then, she’s worked with directors from Kenneth Branagh, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, to Yorgos Lanthimos, in Bugonia, which is out in October; made her Broadway debut, in The Graduate; and published best-selling vegan cookbooks. Now she stars in Irish Blood, a haunting limited series about a Los Angeles divorce attorney who travels to Ireland after receiving a cryptic message from her father. To celebrate its release, the actress shares her key components to the good life. —Carolina de Armas
Airline: A quiet one that has good plant-based food and the flight attendants don’t wake you up.
Alibi: My son.
Bag: Vegan.
Bedtime: 10 P.M.
Breakfast, Weekday: A steel-cut-oats recipe from [my cookbook] The Kind Diet.
Breakfast, weekend: Homemade vegan French toast.
Car: Electric.
Child: Bear.
Cocktail: A good white Burgundy.
Cocktail appetizer: Artichoke, mushroom, and leek crostini with the pesto recipe from The Kind Diet.
Diet: The Kind Diet.
Dress: Made sustainably.
Last Meal: Sourdough toast with Miyoko’s butter and heirloom tomatoes, with salt.
Nonfiction book: The Kind Mama [my book on motherhood].
Novel: Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts.
Pet Companion: All animals, but especially my dog, Pinto Bean.
Work of art: Nature.
Time of day: Magic hour, as the sun sets.
Piece of advice: “Be there for your parents’ last breath.”
Pair of shoes: Vegan.
Alicia’s Essentials
