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Bon Appétit June 22, 2022
Read MoreAt the top of this list is Simply Julia, Julia Turshen’s fourth, most personal book yet. . .The overall effect is as if you’re in that friend’s house you loved visiting as a kid, the one where the refrigerator was always stocked and the parents told you to call them by their first names.
The New York Times May 27, 2021
Read MoreThe American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide. Here is the Indie Cooking Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending April 18, 2021.
By Emily Behnke / American Booksellers Association - Indiebound, April 22, 2021
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 MoreWe’re making space in our kitchens for these books with healthy recipes, great barbecue, and heritage dishes.
By Tiffani Rozier / Inquirer, Apr 14, 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 MoreThe genius in these gluten-free, easy-as-can-be egg noodles is that they can turn a simple stock into a cozy, richly satisfying meal. This version comes from Julia Turshen's new cookbook, Simply Julia, but the basic technique is one that's used in cuisines around the world. Best part of all? They're ready in minutes.
Food 52 - Genius Recipes with Kristen Miglore, March 29, 2021
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 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 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 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 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
Read More“If you've already cooked your way through bestselling author Julia Turshen's other hits (namely Now & Again and Small Victories), you'll want to snag her latest: a collection of 110 'foolproof' recipes that are equal parts practical and nutritious. Sprinkled throughout the pages are personal essays, adaptations for dietary needs and tips you'll return to again and again (like how to use up that leftover buttermilk).
By Morgan Olsen / TimeOut, March 2, 2021
Read More. . .her latest offering, “Simply Julia,” is as close to an autobiography as a cookbook can be, from her handwritten recipe titles to the inclusion of old family snapshots, photographs of her at home, essays and a peek into her life with every dish.
By Mark Kennedy / Associated Press, March 1, 2021
Read MoreAll of this approachability and authenticity lends itself to the conceit and name of her latest cookbook for home cooks, Simply Julia (HarperWave, 2021).
By Eric Steinman / Chronogram, March 1, 2021
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