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Read More'Cookbooks are incredibly powerful,' says Julia Turshen. 'They have the power to reach a large number of people, and to reach people in a way that’s a little unexpected'
Laura Brehaut / National Post, April 16, 2021
Read More"I dot the top with milky ricotta and grated mozzarella, pop the skillet under the broiler, and then shower the whole thing with my favorite pizza condiments," says the author of the new Simply Julia cookbook. "Giving kale the white pizza treatment is one of the best ways I know to take the boring out of eating greens!"
People, April 2021
Read MoreHome cook Julia Turshen’s newest book, “Simply Julia,” provides healthy, comforting recipes, along with personality and warmth.
By Corinne Engber / Jewish Boston, April 6, 2021
Read MoreUp next: author Julia Turshen. Her latest cookbook, Simply Julia, is a national bestseller that has received praise from the likes of Jennifer Garner, Carla Hall and Antoni Porowski.
With Debbie Millman / Print, March 30, 21
Read MoreAfter a long (and undeniably difficult) winter this past year, we've all been looking forward to spring. Sunny skies and longer days, flowers creeping out of the ground, and the promise that summer is finally on the horizon. As the season sets in, so too has an impressive crop of new cookbooks. We started asking our editors back in February to share which books they were excited about—in the end, a list of 23 emerged, spanning early March all the way to mid-June.
Food & Wine, March 25, 2021
Read MoreNew titles from Nigella Lawson, Julia Turshen, Rodney Scott and more will shape the way you cook this season
Eater, March 22, 2021
Read MoreIn your introduction for ‘Simply Julia,” you write: “What I’ve come to realize is that you can believe in home cooking and also sometimes feel tired of it. That’s okay! Both of these things can be true at the same time.” This sentiment has never been more true than this particular moment in time.
By Alix Wall / Forward, March 19, 2021
Read MoreWhen it comes to food, the concept of "health" has become an increasingly fraught one; for proof, all you need to do is look at the many eating plans that market themselves as revolutionary new ways of making you feel good about yourself, when really, they're just...diets, which have been shown to be ineffective as a long-term means of keeping off weight. That's why cook, writer and all-around food expert Julia Turshen's new cookbook Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food feels so revolutionary; along with powerful essays, childhood memories, and love letters to her wife Grace, Turshen's book contains recipes that prioritize taste and accessibility, not weight loss.
By Emma Specter / Vogue, March 17, 2021
Read MoreCOOKBOOK REVIEW: Making meals that feel like a hug
By Susan Puckett / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 17, 2021
Read MoreTurshen's new healthy cookbook celebrates comfort food and has nothing to do with weight loss — it's a revolution
By Joseph Neese / Salon, March 14, 2021
Read MoreNew York Times bestselling cookbook author and food equity advocate Julia Turshen has always known exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up. Turshen—who worked with Gwenyth Paltrow, former Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, and contributed to numerous cookbooks before writing her own—says cookbooks have always been essential to her. “As a kid,” she says from her home in upstate New York, “I couldn’t fall asleep unless I read a cookbook before bed.” Her newest release, Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food (out March 2), is filled with make-ahead mains, vegan one-pot meals like stewed chickpeas over couscous, and her go-to sides (cheesy ranch grits!).
Bust Magazine, Spring 2021
Read MoreLet Julia Turshen teach you to love home cooking, embrace community-supported agriculture, and abandon diet culture.
By Julia Gomez Kramer / The Cut, March 8, 2021
As a chef and cookbook author Julia Turshen has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to sharing ideas for home-cooking that are approachable, accessible, and delicious. Her brand new book Simply Julia, proves to be no exception. But more than that, Julia’s work actively combats the racial and gender-based discrimination that’s long riddled the food industry—she’s the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), a digital directory that “builds a longer table” for women, non-binary individuals, and people of color working in food. Read on for a peek into the life she’s forged in the Hudson Valley.
Passerbuys, March 7, 2021
Read MoreJulia Turshen is a home cook and food writer, author of the cookbooks Now & Again, Feed the Resistance and Small Victories, among others. The founder of Equity at the Table and host of the podcast Keep Calm and Cook On, Turshen lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her wife, Grace, and their pets. Her latest book, Simply Julia: 100 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food (Harper Wave, $32.50; reviewed below), offers recipes featuring a healthier take on the simple, satisfying comfort food for which Turshen is known.
Shelf Awareness, March 5, 2021
Read MoreFor food writer and cookbook author Julia Turshen, Sundays are about relaxing, recharging, and reconnecting. She and her wife, Grace Bonney, are both self-employed and worked from home pre-pandemic, so they’re well-versed in the all-the-days-run-together phenomenon. But on Sundays, they make a conscious effort to take a break and slow down, and that includes in the kitchen.
I recently had the chance to talk with Julia about her weekend breakfast routine (past and present); her new book, Simply Julia; and her personal feelings about meal planning.
By Nina Elder / Kitchn, March 5, 2021
Read MoreHer big project this year is "Simply Julia" (Harper Wave, $32.50), a new cookbook that explores her food identity and what it means to eat "healthy" and have complicated relationships with food and our bodies.
She finished the book before the pandemic started, but she was able to rewrite many parts to reflect this difficult year, including this recipe for ropa vieja, which she served to first responders in her area early in the pandemic.
By Addie Broyles / Austin 360, March 5, 2021
Read MoreFood writer and social activist Julia Turshen hasn’t tried the Wendy’s sandwich. But her brand-new book, Simply Julia: 101 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food (HarperCollins; $26), does offer a recipe for jalapeño popper chicken that shows why the combination is so compelling.
“It’s the most useful book I’ve done,” she says. “I know, from talking to home cooks on Instagram and other spaces, what stresses out people about cooking at home.”
By Kate Krader / Bloomberg, March 5, 2021
Read MoreThey say that rain on your wedding day is good luck. But what does it mean when it pours on the afternoon of your bat mitzvah? Such is the question cookbook author Julia Turshen had to reckon with at 13.
By Samantha Leach / The Spiel, March 3, 2021
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