Julia Turshen

Julia Turshen (born 1985) is an American bestselling cookbook author,[1][2] food writer, cook, and food equity advocate.[3] She lectures on food and home cooking and has published four solo books on the subject and has contributed to many others in collaboration or as a writer. Those she has collaborated with include Gwyneth Paltrow, Dana Cowin, and Mario Batali.[4][5][6] She hosts the podcast Keep Calm and Cook On[7] and writes a monthly column in Food & Wine called The Interview.[8] She has written for the New York Times,[9] Condé Nast Traveler,[10] Vogue,[11] and Bon Appétit.[12] She serves on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board[13] and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), a digital directory of people of color, women, and non-binary individuals in food.[14][15] She also regularly provides meals for Citizen Action New York, which led to her 2016 appointment as developer of the organization's food team.[16]

Julia Turshen
Born1985
OccupationCookbook author
Spouse(s)Grace Bonney

Early life

Turshen grew up with one brother in a liberal, secular New York Jewish household. Her parents were workaholics; (Queery podcast, 12:20) her mother was an art director and her father was a graphic designer. Turshen wanted to work on cookbooks from a young age, always poring over cookbooks with great interest. At age 13, she even opened a mini restaurant in her family's home.[17] Her maternal grandparents, refugees to the United States, owned a bread bakery in Brooklyn, which Turshen's mother grew up in. Though she never met her grandparents, Turshen believes these roots created a "hereditary, genetic" (Queery podcast, 10:08) pull toward cooking within her. As her parents did not cook much,[18] she taught herself with the help of books and the pre-Food Network television landscape of Julia Child and the Discovery Channel's Great Chefs show. In between high school and college, Turshen worked at Kneaded Bread Bakery in Port Chester, New York.[19]

Education

Turshen did not attend culinary school; rather, she attended Manhattan's all-women's school, Barnard College, where she studied poetry and majored in English.[19][20] During her tenure, she interned for a food magazine, a cookbook author, and a food show television producer. She ended up working for the producer part-time while still in school. (Queery podcast, 19:06)

Career

Turshen was hired right out of college, by the television producer for whom she had interned and worked, to serve as assistant to a writer who had been hired to write the companion book for a PBS travel show about food and cooking. (Queery podcast, 19:40) The job was in Spain, and Turshen bought a one-way ticket there. When the writer dropped out of the project, Turshen was afforded the opportunity to write the book herself, and she did. Next, she co-authored and otherwise collaborated on approximately ten cookbooks, ranging from a Korean cookbook to a Vietnamese cookbook to a cookbook about breads from around the world (Queery podcast, 30:40), supplementing her meager income by working as a private chef for wealthy clients. (Queery podcast, 25:26) Using her experiences, Turshen published her first solo book of recipes and stories in September 2016. (Queery podcast, 28:35)

In 2016, Turshen released her first solo cookbook, Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs. It was listed as one of The New York Times' best cookbooks of that year,[21] one of NPR's best cookbooks of that year,[22] and one of the best cookbooks for holiday giving, according to the Boston Globe.[23]

In 2017, Turshen released Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved, whose proceeds she donated to the ACLU.[24] The book was a meditation on food and activism.[25] It went on to earn Eater's Best Cookbook of 2017.[26] The San Francisco Chronicle lauded it as one of their picks for best cookbooks of 2017[27] and The Village Voice included it on their list 2017’s Best Food Books for Woke Readers (and Eaters).[28]

In 2018, Turshen's book Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Best Food & Cookbooks.[29]

In 2019, Turshen's podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On, was nominated for an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award.[30]

Lectures

Turshen has given talks or served as moderator at venues such as the Brooklyn's Museum of Food & Drink,[31] the University of Michigan,[32] New Orleans' Dillard University,[33] The New York Times Food Festival,[34] the National Museum of American History,[35] the Philly Chef Conference,[36] and the William Vale Hotel.[37]

She has also been featured on Google Talks,[38] NPR,[39] KCRW,[40] and PRX.[41]

Awards
  • Eater's Best Cookbook of 2017[19]

Personal life

Turshen is married to Design Sponge founder Grace Bonney.[42][43] The couple lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and had a vacation home in Ulster County, New York. In 2014, they and their dogs moved into the vacation home, an 1850s farmhouse, full-time.[44]

Bibliography

Solo projects
  • Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers (2018)[45]
  • Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved (2017)
  • Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs (2016)
  • Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food Hardcover (2021)[46]

Collaborations
  • Elizabeth Street Cafe by Julia Turshen, Larry McGuire, and Tom Moorman (2017)
  • The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World Jessamyn Rodriguez and Julia Turshen (2015)
  • It's All Good by Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Turshen
  • Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food by Jody Williams with Julia Turshen

References
  1. Bechler, Michaela. "7 Things to Do with Not-So-New Produce, from Julia Turshen's New Cookbook". Vogue. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  2. Turshen, Julia (2021-03-02). Simply Julia by Julia Turshen. ISBN 978-0-06-299333-5.
  3. Howard, Hanna. "This Cookbook Wants to Feed Your Activism". Teen Vogue. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  4. Moskin, Julia (Mar 13, 2012). "I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  5. "Julia Turshen's Secrets To Better Home Cooking". Saveur. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  6. "Give the gift of a cookbook this holiday season — here are some suggestions". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  7. "Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  8. "Julia Turshen". Food & Wine. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  9. Turshen, Julia (Oct 5, 2017). "Opinion | The Resistance Is Hungry". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  10. "Julia Turshen". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  11. "Julia Turshen". Vogue. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  12. Turshen, Julia. "Top Taste Isn't the Food of My Home, But It Makes Me Feel at Home". Bon Appétit. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  13. "The Kitchen Cabinet". National Museum of American History. Mar 1, 2017. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  14. Kludt, Amanda (Apr 4, 2018). "Author Julia Turshen Launches Database for Marginalized Voices in Food". Eater. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  15. "Equity at the Table from Julia Turshen". Tasting Table. Apr 5, 2018. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  16. Turshen, Alex Swerdloff,Julia (Oct 2, 2017). "How to Fuel a Revolution". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  17. "Renowned cookbook author Julia Turshen on why she loves leftovers". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  18. Drinking, Eating & (Oct 12, 2018). "An ode to leftovers: Why pastas, stews and, yes, meatloaf always taste better the next day | National Post". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  19. McKeever, Amy (Oct 4, 2019). "How Julia Turshen Became One of the Best Cookbook Authors in the Business". Eater. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  20. "10 Years Later—Still Bold, Beautiful Barnard | Barnard". barnard.edu. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  21. Times, The New York (Sep 27, 2016). "The Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  22. https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2016/#/book/small-victories-recipes-advice-hundreds-of-ideas-for-home-cooking-triumphs
  23. "The season's best cookbooks for holiday giving - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  24. "A new cookbook is donating proceeds to Planned Parenthood, another to the ACLU". Los Angeles Times. Nov 2, 2017. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  25. "Chef and author Julia Turshen on the politics of food". CSNY. Nov 10, 2017. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  26. Galarza, Daniela (Dec 5, 2017). "'Feed the Resistance' Is Cookbook of the Year". Eater. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  27. https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Our-favorite-cookbooks-of-2017-12378693.php
  28. https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/28/2017s-best-food-books-for-woke-readers-and-eaters/
  29. "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Food & Cookbooks!". Goodreads. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  30. "Our 23 Finalists for the 2019 IACP Awards". penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  31. "Taste of Resilience: A Conversation with the Rousseau Sisters and Julia Turshen". Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD). Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  32. "Author Julia Turshen Discusses Her Book "Feed the Resistance" | Happening @ Michigan". events.umich.edu. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  33. Worthy, Tyree (Nov 14, 2018). "Fox News analyst, acclaimed chef speak at Dillard this week". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  34. "NYT Food Festival: The Talks". www.timessquarenyc.org. Jul 9, 2019. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  35. PM, Jan 4-7:30. "Eventful: Empowering Communities Through Food". Eventful. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  36. "2019 Schedule". Philly Chef Conference. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  37. "My New Roots + Jessica Murnane + Julia Turshen". The William Vale. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  38. "Talks at Google | Small Victories: Recipes & Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs". gtalks-gs.appspot.com. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  39. "'Small Victories' Aims To Make Home Cooking Accessible To All". NPR.org. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  40. "Leftovers with loved ones | Good Food". KCRW. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  41. "PRX". beta.prx.org. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  42. "How Grace Bonney Spends a Perfect Night In". Apartment Therapy. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  43. "Grace Bonney and Julia Turshen". May 14, 2014. Retrieved Dec 23, 2019.
  44. Foster, Brooke Lea (Dec 14, 2018). "Forget the Suburbs, It's Country or Bust". Retrieved Dec 23, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  45. Giorgis, Hannah (26 March 2020). "Coronavirus Quarantine: What to Cook". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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