About Julia
Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a weekly newsletter and teaches cooking classes most Sunday afternoons (15% of proceeds from each class go to a meaningful organization). Her latest cookbook, What Goes with What, is now available! The Washington Post calls it “absolutely genius.”
Her last cookbook, Simply Julia, a National Bestseller, is the recipient of the 2022 IACP Award for Best Cookbook: Health & Nutrition. Julia is also the author of Now & Again (named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon and an NPR ‘Great Read’), Feed the Resistance (named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater), and Small Victories (named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR).
Julia hosts and produces the IACP-nominated podcast called ‘Keep Calm & Cook On,’ which the New York Times has called “an antidote to diet culture.” Julia is the founder of Equity at the Table, an inclusive digital directory. Epicurious has named Julia one of the ‘100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time.’ She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and is a member of God’s Love We Deliver’s Culinary Council.
Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse Grace and their many pets.