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Coach Business199: A Fully Integrated, Authentic Life with Julia TurshenThis episode is a special treat. We have someone I've admired (from afar) for years, and a different kind of conversation than the ones we typically have around here.Joining us on the podcast today is New York Times bestselling cookbook author, Julia Turshen!We dive into so many interesting topics, including:What it means to make a living AND a lifeSurfing the waves as a freelancerCookbooks as an under-appreciated form of cultureRevenue generation amidst market shiftsWhat powerlifting does for her (and finding your equivalent)There's so much wisdom to be gained from...
2025-07-0247 min
This Is TASTEJulia Turshen Writes Charts, Not Recipes
Julia Turshen is the author of four cookbooks, including the new release What Goes With What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities. It’s a comprehensive guide to building cooking intuition and transforming odds and ends into a meal, and we had a great conversation live at Rizzoli bookstore all about making the book come to life, plus things like body acceptance and what constitutes queer food. We hope you’ll enjoy it. Take our listener survey! We'd love to to hear who we should invite into our studio for an interview and TASTE Check.MORE FROM JULIA...
2024-11-021h 00
Rethinking WellnessIntuitive Cooking, Diet-Culture Recovery, and a New Relationship to Fitness with Julia TurshenThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comNew York Times bestselling cookbook author Julia Turshen joins us to discuss intuitive cooking and how it relates to intuitive eating, how diet-culture recovery has influenced her approach to cooking and recipe writing, learning to accept that not every meal is going to be stellar (and why that’s a powerful antidote to social-media diet culture), her new book, What Goes with What, and more. Behind the paywall, we discuss how we’ve both gotten to a place where work isn’t our...
2024-10-1444 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Sharon Salomon + Tricia LuceroSharon Salomon, 80, is a competitive powerlifter. She and her coach, Tricia Lucero, join Julia Turshen for a conversation about lifting, training and more.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her gym.
2024-09-1255 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Le CarrLe Carr is the co-owner of Rain City Fit in Seattle, Washington. They are also the director of Pride Deadlift Party, an annual block-party style deadlift competition and fundraiser for the Seattle LGBTQIA+ community that has raised tens of thousands of dollars. They joined Julia Turshen to talk about powerlifting, running gyms, competitions and more.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to her...
2024-09-051h 11
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Elazar SontagElazar Sontag is a James Beard and National Magazine Award-nominated writer and editor. He's also a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient. Most importantly, he is currently trying for a 400-pound deadlift. He joined Julia Turshen to talk about powerlifting, eating, queerness, bodies and more.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her g...
2024-08-2951 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Alex LauAlex Lau is a food and travel photographer from San Francisco. When not sitting in car rentals and airport terminals, he is the proud owner of three dogs named Rocco, Ellie, and Nina. With the rest of his free time, he trains and competes as a nationally ranked powerlifter. He joined Julia Turshen for a conversation about his lifting.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read...
2024-08-221h 01
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Gabi DixsonGabi Dixson, a Multi-World Record Breaking Athlete, has been named the 5th Worlds Strongest Woman. She is also a model, public speaker, musician, and social worker with over a decade of experience. She joins Julia Turshen for a conversation about her life and strength.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia starte...
2024-08-1557 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Ashley DyceAshley Dyce, a Para Powerlifter, joins Julia Turshen for a conversation about athletic career and what drives her.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her gym.Follow Ashely and her lifting on IG at @ashleiie225!
2024-08-0837 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Corinne FayCorinne Fay, the person behind Big Undies, a Substack newsletter about clothes, and @SellTradePlus, a peer-to-peer plus size resale community, joins Julia Turshen for a conversation about powerlifting, bodies, queerness and more.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her gym.Read Big Undies right here.Follow everything Burnt Toast...
2024-08-011h 00
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Casey JohnstonCasey Johnston, the writer behind She’s a Beast, Ask a Swole Woman and LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell, joins Julia Turshen for a conversation about lifting and writing about it.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her gym.For more about Casey and her work, head here.For more ab...
2024-07-2553 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Lifting: Laura KhoudariLaura Khoudari, a trauma-informed wellness writer, coach, and storyteller, is the author of Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time. She joins Julia Turshen in a conversation about lifting heavy stuff, knowing when to stop lifting heavy stuff, and how to approach it all from a holistic, embodied lens.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia’s new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia’s long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch...
2024-07-1853 min
The Culinary Boss PodcastWhy Julia Turshen Opens Up Her Kitchen to the World Every SundayWeek after week, cookbook author and cooking teacher Julia Turshen opens her kitchen to the world...Since 2021, Julia Turshen has logged into Zoom practically every Sunday to cook with eager home cooks from around the world.Once a temporary replacement for book tour demos during the pandemic, Sunday cooking classes are now a key pillar of Julia’s week. She’s swapped random makeshift demo kitchens for her comfortable and familiar kitchen in her Hudson Valley farmhouse.And in Julia’s words, “I went from enjoying those [cooking demos] the least to enjoying those th...
2023-03-0750 min
Can I Have Another Snack?05: Nourishing Appetites with Julia TurshenToday I’m super pumped to be speaking with New York Times bestselling cookbook author Julia Turshen. As well as writing cookbooks Julia is the author of the Keep Calm & Cook On Substack and hosts the Keep Calm & Cook On Podcast, both of which I highly recommend. She also hosts these awesome Sunday cook along classes where you can make recipes in real-time with her from the comfort of your own kitchen. This may be my favourite conversation of the series so far. It just feels so wholesome and I know it’s going to be one I keep comi...
2022-09-3058 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Appetites: Virginia Sole-SmithVirginia Sole-Smith, journalist behind the Burnt Toast newsletter + author of The Eating Instinct, in conversation with Julia Turshen.Follow-up links:To sign up for Julia's newsletter, head here.For more about Virginia, head here.For more about Burnt Toast, Virginia's newsletter, head here.
2022-07-121h 15Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Appetites: Shaina Loew-BanayanShaina Loew-Banayan, chef and owner of Cafe Mutton and author of Elegy for An Appetite, in conversation with Julia Turshen.Follow-up links:For more about Shaina's book Elegy for an Appetite, head here.For the New Yorker review of Elegy for an Appetite, head here.For more about Cafe Mutton, head here and follow them on IG here.To sign up for Julia's newsletter, head here.
2022-07-0543 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Appetites: Lauren LeavellLauren Leavell in conversation with Julia Turshen, in the second in a series of four conversations all about APPETITE.Follow-up links:For more about Lauren, head here.To sign up for Julia's newsletter, head here.To listen to Lauren on the Food Heaven podcast, head here.For the recording of Julia's recent class on grilling, head here.
2022-06-2848 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Appetites: Angela GarbesAngela Garbes, author of ESSENTIAL LABOR and LIKE A MOTHER, in conversation with Julia Turshen.Follow-up links:For more about Angela and her work, head here.To sign up for Julia's newsletter, head here.For more about Julia + her work, head here.
2022-06-2255 min
Sunny Side Up NutritionRedefining Healthy Cooking with Julia TurshenAnna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport chat with Julia Turshen about the process of researching and writing a cookbook, and how it felt to include an essay on breaking up with diet culture in her latest cookbook, Simply Julia. She also talks about how disconnection is inherent in diet culture; in families, or among friends, having weight loss as a common goal can feel temporarily good, but ultimately creates a deficit of joy around food. We discuss: How isolating it can be to grow up in a family that is immersed in diet culture, but also how...
2022-05-0938 min
Sunny Side Up NutritionRedefining Healthy Cooking with Julia TurshenAnna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport chat with Julia Turshen about the process of researching and writing a cookbook, and how it felt to include an essay on breaking up with diet culture in her latest cookbook, Simply Julia. She also talks about how disconnection is inherent in diet culture; in families, or among friends, having weight loss as a common goal can feel temporarily good, but ultimately creates a deficit of joy around food. We discuss: How isolating it can be to grow up in a family that is immersed in diet culture, but also how...
2022-05-0938 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFood + Romance: Jasmine GuilloryBestselling romance novelist Jasmine Guillory talks to Julia Turshen about the role food plays in her books, why she writes about women with unapologetic appetites, and her favorite snacks.For more about Jasmine, head here.For more about Julia's Sunday afternoon cooking classes, head here.For Jasmine's Bustle essay, head here.For Jasmine's TIME essay, head here.For Rancho Gordo's popcorn kernels, head here.For Jasmine's favorite potato chips (Torres — Smoked Paprika), head here.For BjornQorn (Julia's favorite popcorn), head here.
2022-04-1235 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFood + Romance: Casey McQuistonBestselling romantic comedy writer Casey McQuiston talks to Julia Turshen about the role food plays in both their writing and in their life.For more about Casey, head here.To learn more about Julia's Sunday afternoon cooking classes, head here.
2022-04-1257 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Baking: King Arthur's Recipe of the YearJulia Turshen talks to David Tamarkin, the Editorial Director of King Arthur Baking, about King Arthur's 2022 Recipe of the Year. Quick note: the bagel shop that David frequents is Bo's (not Mo's). Follow-up links:For more about King Arthur Baking, head here.For King Arthur's Ultimate Sandwich Bagels recipe, head here.For more about Julia Turshen, head here.For more about Zoe Kanan's baking, including bagel pop-ups, head here.For more about Pigeon Bagels, head here.For more about Bo's bagels, head here.
2021-12-3026 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Baking: Roxane GayRoxane Gay and Julia Turshen talk about baking. Note: this episode includes some cursing.Follow-up links:For more about Roxane Gay, head here.To sign up for 'The Audacity,' Roxane's newsletter, head here.For more about Julia Turshen, head here.For more about King Arthur Baking, head here.For Julia's IG video of her favorite cherry tomato-cutting hack, head here.
2021-12-2333 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Baking: Alicia KennedyJulia Turshen talks to Alicia Kennedy about vegan baking and more.Follow-up links: For more about Alicia, head here.To sign up for Alicia’s newsletter (HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THIS!), head here. For Alicia’s ‘On Baking’ essay, head here.For Alicia’s essay ‘I Accidentally Started a Vegan Bakery That Turned My Life Upside Down,’ head here.For Miyokos butter, head here.: For more about the Post Punk Kitchen (Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s work), head here.For more about Leah Kirts’ work, head here. For Brooks Headley’s book Fancy Desserts, head here. For Lagusta Yearwood’s book Sweet + S...
2021-12-1647 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Baking: Cheryl DayJulia Turshen talks to Cheryl Day about her new book Cheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking .Follow-up links:For more about Cheryl and her book and her bakery, head here.For more about Julia, head here.For more about King Arthur Baking, head here.For more about Book Larder, head here.
2021-12-0946 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Baking: Dorie GreenspanJulia Turshen talks to Dorie Greenspan about Baking with Dorie, Dorie's 14th cookbook that also marks her 30th anniversary as a cookbook author. They discuss the origin of Dorie's newest book, the logistics of her work including her longtime recipe tester, her relationship to social media, how being a grandmother has impacted her work, and some of her favorite recipes from her new book.Follow-up links:Fore more about Dorie, head here.For Dorie's newsletter, head here.For more about Julia, head here.For more about King Arthur Baking, head here.For more about Barrett Bookstore...
2021-12-0248 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBody Stuff with Grace BonneyJulia and her wife, Grace Bonney, have an honest talk about body stuff.Follow-Up Links:Head here to Dinnerly and use the code 'KEEPCALM' to get $60 off of your first 4 boxes!To pre-order Grace's upcoming book, Collective Wisdom, head here.To order signed copies of all of Julia's cookbooks, including Simply Julia, head here.To order Keep Calm & Cook On merch, head here.Mental Health Resources:For a list of anti-diet, Health at Every Size + Intuitive Eating providers for disordered-eating recovery, head here. For an additional list of Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors, head here.T...
2021-09-061h 06Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenReem Kassis: One Foot on the Ground, A Hand Reaching OutReem Kassis, author of The Palestinian Table and The Arabesque Table, in conversation with Julia Turshen. Reem is an award-winning Palestinian writer who focuses on the intersection of food with culture, history and politics. Follow-up links:For more about Reem, her books, and all of her work, head here.For more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here.To order a signed copy of Julia's latest book Simply Julia from Oblong Books, her local bookstore, head here.For more about Julia, head here.For more about MoFAD, head here.
2021-06-281h 05Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenRochelle Udell Turshen (Julia's Mom!) x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourRochelle Udell Turshen in conversation with her daughter Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Congregation Rodeph Shalom for hosting this conversation!Rochelle Udell Turshen, Julia's mother, had a long career in publishing and advertising, including roles as the Founding Art Director of Ms. magazine, the Editor-in-Chief of SELF, and the SVP and Creative Director of Chico's. She currently creates artwork and community programming.Follow-up links:For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.ComTo order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head hereFor more about Rodeph S...
2021-05-1748 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenNik Sharma x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourNik Sharma in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Now Serving for hosting this conversation!Nik is a food writer, photographer, cookbook author, and recipe developer based in Los Angeles. He is the author of two bestselling cookbooks. His first Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Photography) and a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals Julia Child Award. Nik’s second cookbook, The Flavor Equation focuses on the science of flavor and how we interact with it. Follow-up lin...
2021-05-171h 03Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAntoni Porowski x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourAntoni Porowski in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Sixth & I for hosting this conversation!Antoni is a New York Times Bestselling Author and star of Netflix’s hit series 'Queer Eye.' Antoni’s first cookbook, Antoni in the Kitchen, was released in Fall 2019, debuting at #2 on the New York Times’ Best Seller List. His next cookbook, Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner, is set for release fall 2021. Born in Canada to Polish emigrants, Antoni is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights everywhere, especially his family’s native Poland.Follow-up...
2021-05-171h 03Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenClaire Saffitz x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourClaire Saffitz in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Harvard Bookstore for hosting this conversation!Claire is a freelance recipe developer, author, and video host. Previously, she was Senior Food Editor at Bon Appétit magazine, where she worked for five years in the test kitchen. She hosted the series Gourmet Makes on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel, where she used her classical pastry knowledge to reverse engineer popular snack foods and candy. Claire was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and now lives in New York City. She gr...
2021-05-171h 01Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenJia Tolentino x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourJia Tolentino in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Left Bank Books for hosting this conversation!Jia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.Follow-up links:For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.ComTo order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head hereFor more about Left Bank Books, who hosted this conversation, head hereFor over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head hereFor more about Jia Tolentino, head here
2021-05-1754 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAshley C. Ford x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourAshley C. Ford in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Books Are Magic for hosting this conversation!Ashley C. Ford is a writer, host, and educator who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy. Her memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, will be published by Flatiron Books on June 1, 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio, seasons one & three of MasterCard’s Fortune Favors The Bold, as well...
2021-05-1748 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDorie Greenspan x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourDorie Greenspan in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Oblong Books for hosting this conversation!Dorie Greenspan is the author of 13 cookbooks, including her latest, Everyday Dorie and Dorie’s Cookies. A best-selling author and five-time James Beard award winner, she is a columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Dorie's next book, "Baking with Dorie," will be published in October. You can find her at @doriegreenspan. Dorie and Julia talk about home cooking, how they make cookbooks, the volunteer work Julia and her wife Grace do, and so muc...
2021-05-171h 08Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDeb Perelman x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourDeb Perelman in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Book Larder for hosting this conversation!Deb is a self-taught home cook, photographer and the creator of smittenkitchen.com. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling cookbooks The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Day. Deb lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.Follow-up links:For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.ComTo order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head hereFor more about Book L...
2021-05-1751 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenPati Jinich x Simply Julia Virtual Book TourPati Jinich in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Book Passage for hosting this conversation!Pati Jinich is the star of Pati’s Mexican Table, her PBS television series that has aired for 9 seasons and gets nearly 30 million views in the United States. The show has received three James Beard Awards for Best Culinary Television Program and Pati has also won the award for Outstanding Personality/TV Host. The show has also received three Daytime Emmy nominations and is streamed in 80 countries worldwide. Pati is also a celebrated cookbook author and th...
2021-05-1758 min
Reading WomenInterview with Julia TurshenKendra talks with Julia Turshen the author of Simply Julia, which out now from Harper Wave.Thanks to our sponsors!
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2021-04-2856 min
SeasonedJulia Turshen’s Simply Julia + Cooking For The ClergyBeloved food writer and activist Julia Turshen talks with us about her new cookbook, Simply Julia, which describes her efforts to disentangle herself from diet culture and emerge a more centered, mindful eater. When her wife, Grace, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it changed the way Julia cooked forever. Now the couple enjoy Julia's "healthy comfort food," and we can, too. We learn that comfort food is less about carbs and cheese and more about feeling nourished and cared for. Also this hour, we talk to two chefs who cook for clergy in Connecticut and find out what's on...
2021-04-0149 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenEvelyn Tribole on Intuitive Eating + MoreEvelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, in conversation with Julia Turshen about Intuitive Eating and so much more. Evelyn Tribole is an award-winning registered dietitian, author, and speaker who also has a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. Evelyn has written many books, including Intuitive Eating which she coauthored with Elyse Resch and is currently in its fourth edition. Evelyn’s latest book is Intuitive Eating for Every Day. Evelyn and Julia talk about how both of their work has evolved over time, how they hold ourselves accountable for work they don’t feel as great about now as we d...
2021-03-301h 01
Second LifeJulia Turshen: Best-Selling Cookbook Author, Food Equity Advocate, and CookJulia Turshen, a best-selling cookbook author, reputable food writer, food advocate and founder of Equity at the Table, and podcast host, is defining what it means to be a modern, authentic author and food extraordinaire. Turshen has written three renowned cookbooks, winning prestigious awards like The New York Times best seller, Eater’s Best Cookbook of the Year, and Amazon’s Best Cookbook. Now, she’s releasing a fourth cookbook, Simply Julia, on March 2, highlighting her unique perspective on healthy comfort foods. On this episode of Second Life, find out how Turshen’s past life as a private chef influenc...
2021-03-0156 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenGod's Love We DeliverGod’s Love Deliver believes that food is medicine. And that food is love. God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. They have been serving every New York City borough since 1985 and now also serve clients in parts of New Jersey, Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau Counties. Their work is a model for communities across the country. To support the health of their clients, God’s Love We Deliver also provides ongoing nutrition assessment, education, and counseling. It is a non-sectarian organization serving people...
2021-03-011h 04
Salt & SpineJulia Turshen on cookbooks, healthy comfort food, and the role of home cookingThis week, we're excited to welcome Julia Turshen to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks.Julia is returning to Salt + Spine today to talk about her latest cookbook, Simply Julia. Julia is the well-known author of other cookbooks, including two highly praised solo books: Small Victories and Now & Again.And she’s a prolific writer in the industry, bringing together a range of voices and recipes for 2017’s Feed the Resistance cookbook as well as authoring The Interview, a Food & Wine magazine column that features compelling people in food. And the list...
2021-02-2442 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenKristina Gill on Big Issues and Small GesturesKristina Gill is a Nashville-born food and travel photographer and cookbook author who lives and works in Rome. In addition to her award-winning creative work in food, she is also a humanitarian advisor and supports the United Nations' World Food Programme.Helpful follow-up links:For more about Kristina and work, head here.To follow Kristina on Instagram, head here.For more about Julia's new book Simply Julia, head here.For a signed copy of Simply Julia, head here to order from Oblong Books.For more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here.For more...
2021-02-2249 min
A Thing or Two with Claire and EricaWhat Healthy Comfort Food Means to Julia Turshen. And a Snack Taste Test!If you’re not already a devotee of Julia Turshen and her cookbooks—her latest, Simply Julia, is out next week!—well, consider this your initiation into the fan club. We’re talking with her about “healthy” and “comfort”—loaded food words, for certain!—and because we’re geniuses who knew this topic would make us hungry, we’re starting things off with a snack taste test. Ready for our chip chat? We’re chomping on Annie Chun’s Seaweed Crisps Go-Chu-Jang (perhaps with this miso dip), Beanfields Vegan Cracklins Chile Limón (not to be confused with Snacklins), a...
2021-02-2256 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAubrey Gordon (a.k.a. Your Fat Friend): Is it Safe? Is it Kind?For years Aubrey Gordon, author of the newly released book What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, wrote anonymously as "Your Fat Friend" about the social realities of life as a very fat person. Her work has been translated into 19 languages and covered around the world. She has written for many notable outlets, including this recent op-ed in the New York Times, Leave Fat Kids Alone, and she is a columnist with SELF Magazine, where she writes about health, weight stigma, and fatness. Aubrey is also one half of the podcast Maintenance Phase, which she ma...
2021-02-1553 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDr. Jessica B. Harris + Klancy Miller: For the CultureDr. Jessica B. Harris, award-winning food historian and one of the world’s leading experts on the foodways of African Diaspora, and Klancy Miller, Founder of For the Culture magazine and author of Cooking Solo, join Julia to discuss the first issue of For the Culture, legacy, money, and more.Dr. Harris is the author of twelve critically acclaimed, essential cookbooks including Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking, Sky Juice and Flying Fish: Traditional Caribbean Cooking, The Welcome Table: African-American Heritage Cooking, The Africa Cookbook, and High on the Hog: A Culinary...
2021-02-0851 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFood Plus People Equals DignityMavis-Jay Sanders and Sicily Sierra Johnson, the couple behind Food Plus People, join Julia to discuss their business, intentions, and more.Helpful follow-up links:For more about Food Plus People and to order their products, head here.To follow Food Plus People on Instagram, head here.To support Food Plus People's Go Fund Me, head here.For more about Julia's new book Simply Julia, head here.For a signed/personalized copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here.For more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here.For more about Oxo, head here.
2021-02-0152 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenPati Jinich Shines BrightPati Jinich is the star of Pati’s Mexican Table, her PBS television series that has aired for 9 seasons and gets nearly 30 million views in the United States. The show has received three James Beard Awards for Best Culinary Television Program and Pati has also won the award for Outstanding Personality/TV Host. The show has also received three Daytime Emmy nominations and is streamed in 80 countries worldwide. Pati is also a celebrated cookbook author and the mother of three sons. She and Julia discuss how she left being a political analysts to start work in food media, only to...
2021-01-2549 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenVivian Howard: It's Hard to ReconcileJulia Turshen in conversation with Vivian Howard, restauranter, star of two PBS shows (A Chef's Life and Somewhere South) and bestselling cookbook author (Deep Run Roots and This Will Make It Taste Good). Helpful links:For more about Vivian, click here.To order a copy of This Will Make it Taste Good, click here.For more about Julia, click here.To pre-order a signed copy of Simply Julia, click here.For more about OXO, click here. For their turntables, click here.
2021-01-1144 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenZoe Adjonyoh on Connection + HealingZoe Adjonyoh— chef, writer, activist & entrepreneur— started Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen in July 2010 with a pot of peanut butter stew and the intention to start an African food revolution by bringing African food to the masses. She is the author of 'Zoe's Ghana Kitchen,' a wonderful cookbook. Zoe currently works at the intersection of food, culture, identity and politics and has been driven by the need to create space for change in the food landscape. She is one of the founders of Black Book, a global representation platform for Black and non-white people working within hospitality and food media. J...
2020-12-2139 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenLindo Bacon + Radical BelongingJulia talks to Lindo Bacon, PhD about connection, compassion, and more. Lindo's work is considered be life-changing and transformative for many, including Julia. They are the author of the best-selling book, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-author of Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Their latest book is Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better).Helpful follow-up links:LindoBacon.comSimply JuliaSoom Foods (use the code KEEPCALM for 15% off...
2020-12-1429 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenWendy Lopez and Jessica Jones Are Trying to SleepJulia kicks off Season Four of Keep Calm and Cook On with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones, the two women behind Food Heaven, which is, in their words: “a multimedia platform founded by two black registered dietitians & BFFs. We help people transform the way they eat and find joy in food through the practice of intuitive eating and body respect.”This episode clarifies ideas and terms like health at every size, intuitive eating, and the difference between a dietician and a nutritionist. Additionally, Julia talks to Wendy and Jess about how they navigate their friendship while working toge...
2020-12-0753 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenCarla Hall is Comfortable Being UncomfortableOn this holiday bonus episode of Keep Calm & Cook On: Carla Hall, former co-host of The Chew and contestant on Top Chef, talks to Julia about authenticity, imposter syndrome, and more.Follow-up links:Carla HallCarla's InstagramHelen Keller InternationalGreat Jones (enter the code 'CALM' at checkout for 15% off your order!)Julia Turshen
2019-12-1653 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenWhat is Israeli Food? with Einat Admony and Lia RonnenEinat Admony s a chef, restauranteur, and cookbook author who is based in New York City. She’s the force behind beloved places like Taim Falafel and Balaboosta and the author of two cookbooks, Balaboosta, and the newly published SHUK: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking. Lia Ronnen is the publisher of Artisan Books, who has published both of Einat’s books.Einat, Lia, and Julia sat down to talk about what exactly is Israeli food, who gets to define any particular cuisine, cultural appropriation versus appropriation, home cooking, and more.Foll...
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SkilletChicken Pelau with Julia TurshenBestselling cookbook author Julia Turshen isn’t afraid to break the rules. She burns sugar until it smokes (on purpose!) as she pays tribute to Jennie, the woman who inspired this chicken pelau recipe. While she cooks, Julia talks about ways that food can fuel social justice, and shares personal stories of feeling empowered and finding solace in the kitchen.Find more info about Julia Turshen’s books, Small Victories, Now and Again, and Feed the Resistance, as well as her podcast Keep Calm and Cook On at juliaturshen.com. Follow her on Instagram at @turshen.Se...
2019-11-2600 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenYemi Amu Knows Nothing Exists Without WaterYemi Amu, from Oko Farms in Brooklyn, talks to Julia about aquaponics, expansion, and the healing capacity of her work. Yemi is the farmer and educator behind Oko Farms in Brooklyn, New York, an aquaponics farm that not only produces fish and produce and flowers, but also works as an educational farm. Our food community is at its best with people like Yemi doing the work she’s doing. She’s in the middle of raising money to expand into a second location at the Weeksville Heritage Center— please consider supporting her and her important work. Th...
2019-11-2056 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDr. Lezli Levene Harvell Made the Event She Wanted to Go ToLezli Harvell is a board-certified pediatric dentist, who has spent her career providing oral healthcare to healthy and special needs children. She and her husband run a center called Dental Kidz, with a Z, in Newark, New Jersey. She’s also a mother of 5 daughters. Along with a passion for good health and family, Lezli is passionate about food and about breaking the antiquated industry traditions that go along with it. A dual citizen of the United States and Jamaica, Lezli is the creator and curator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (also known as IDE). IDE is an event se...
2019-11-1342 min
Feeding PeopleJulia Turshen: Food as RevolutionCookbook author and podcast host Julia Turshen discusses the crucial role food played during the Civil Rights Movement and the Stonewall Uprising, the unifying human connection that cooking creates, and the correlation between her Jewish identity and her love of food, eating, and gathering together for meals. Show Notes Mentioned on the Show: Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen Feed the Resistance Now and Again Small Victories Equity at the Table Georgia Gilmore Cheryl Day
2019-11-1343 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenLagusta Yearwood On Business, Chocolate + MoreLagusta Yearwood founded Lagusta’s Luscious, an artisinal vegan chocolate company in 2003. Over the last 16 years, she has grown the chocolate business into 3 brick-and-mortars— a chocolate shop and a café in New Paltz, New York, and a sweets shop in Manhattan’s East Village. She also just came out with a brand new cookbook titled SWEET + SALTY: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels and More.Lagusta and Julia talk about Lagusta's businesses, her book, the complication of operating a business while also questioning capitalism, the power of listening to your employees and developing systems, knowing how and whe...
2019-11-0447 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAlexander Smalls, The Ultimate HostAlexander Smalls is a modern Renaissance man. A world-renowned opera singer with both a Grammy and a Tony under his belt, Alexander is also a visionary restaurateur who has brought 5 important New York restaurants into the world— The Cecil, Minton’s, Café Beulah, Sweet Ophelia’s, and Shoebox Cafe. He’s also a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author. Most of all, he’s a warm and welcoming host. He and Julia speak about home, collecting, grief, legacy, storytelling, and, of course, food. Follow-up links:For more about Alexander Smalls, head here.For a tour of Alexander...
2019-10-3046 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAlison Roman Really CaresAlison Roman is a cookbook author, columnist for The New York Times, and all around busy person. She and Julia sat down to talk about the work they do as cookbook authors and what some of their challenges are and also what motivates them. Follow-up links:For more about Alison Roman and her new book Nothing Fancy, head here.For more about Great Jones, head here.For more about Oko Farms, head here.For more about Julia Turshen, head here.
2019-10-2249 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBonnie Slotnick Never Dreads Coming to Work, Plus a Hudson Valley GuideBonnie Slotnick, of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, talks with Julia about her life and career.Plus shout-outs to Oko Farms and Save NYC, ideas for apples, a curated guide to the Hudson Valley from Julia and her wife, Grace.Show follow-up links:Bonnie Slotnick CookbooksHelp Oko Farms!Save NYCApplesauce Cake with Cream Cheese + Honey FrostingDorie Greenspan on Baked ApplesThanks to Oxo for sponsoring this episode!Hudson Valley Farm Stands + Restaurants Links:Westwind Orchard in AccordSaunderskill Farms in AccordDavenport Farms in Stone RidgeCherries Ice Cream in Stone Ridge *get the turkey reuben!Top Taste...
2019-10-1653 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenMary Lou Conroy: The Voice of Great Chefs'Great Chefs' was a series of cooking shows and cookbooks that made over 700 episodes. Each episode was recorded entirely in a professional kitchen rather than a production studio, and each consisted of 3 segments— an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. Each dish was made by a different chef and the whole thing was super straight-forward. No bells or whistles or fancy camerawork or anything. Just straight-up cooking. And the instructions were incredibly clear thanks to the voiceover work of the one and only Mary Lou Conroy. In her thick Louisiana accent, Mary Lou described everything the chefs were doing....
2019-10-0836 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenLeague of Kitchens Cooks with LoveLisa Gross, the founder of League of Kitchens, and Mab Abbasgholizadeh, one of their instructors, sit down with Julia and talk about the organization and its impact. The conversation covers a range of meaningful topics including activism, feminism, sexuality, identity, ideology, immigration, home, memory, trauma, healing, agency, cooking, and love. There are also answers to listeners' questions about cooking.Follow-up links:For more about League of Kitchens and to sign up for one of their classes, head here.For more about Mab, head here.For more about Lisa, head here.For more about Julia Turshen, head...
2019-10-0153 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenElle Simone Scott is a WarriorYou might know Elle Simone Scott from the PBS cooking show America’s Test Kitchen where she is a regular on-air contributor. You might know some of her other work without even realizing it— she has created beautiful food behind the scenes as a food stylist and culinary producer for the Food Network, Cooking Channel, and Bravo. In 2013 she incorporated SheChef, a networking organization for women chefs of color.Elle’s career began in social work, and she and Julia talk about the impact that’s had on her work. They also talk honestly and openly about navigati...
2019-09-2546 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenThe More Visibility with Karen Akunowicz + LJ JohnsonKaren Akunowicz, named Best Chef: Northeast in 2018 by James Beard Foundation, is well-known from her stint on Bravo’s Top Chef, her time as Executive Chef at Myers + Chang in Boston, and from Myers + Chang at Home, the cookbook she co-authored with Joanne Chang. She owns and runs her new restaurant Fox & the Knife in Boston with her spouse, LJ Johnson, plus their poké shop, SloPoke.Julia sat down with Karen and LJ to talk about their partnership in and out of their businesses and how they navigate things like talking about their relationship on television, work-life bal...
2019-09-1753 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAntoni Porowski Loves His SensitivityThe 3rd Season of Keep Calm and Cook On kicks off with Antoni Porowski from Netflix’s Queer Eye and author of the brand new cookbook Antoni in the Kitchen. He and Julia cover everything from imposter syndrome to throwing dinner parties to how to handle being an empathetic person.
One lucky listener is eligible to win a copy of Antoni’s new cookbook! To enter for a chance to win, leave a review of Keep Calm and Cook On on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts, screenshot it, and send it to keepcalmandcookonpodcast@gmail.com...
2019-09-0950 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenLive at Eater Young Guns 2019 with Shakirah SimleyListen to a live recording of the "Goodbye Food World, Hello City Hall" panel from the Eater Young Guns Summit with Shakirah Simley and Julia Turshen. The Summit was a day-long event put on by Eater that celebrated young talent in the restaurant industry and the issues that are important to them. The panel was a purposeful conversation with tangible ideas about all sorts of ways we can all use food to get involved in our communities.
Shakirah Simley lives by the motto: “If the personal is political, then there is nothing more personal or political than fo...
2019-08-1325 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenJia Tolentino on Writing + CookingJia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker and her new book of essays, Trick Mirror, is about to come out in August. Before writing for The New Yorker, Jia worked as a deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin.
Jia and Julia talked about writing, real life versus online and print versus digital, how she learned to cook when she was in the Peace Corps., the role of cooking in her life now, a bit about her new book and her anticipation of it being out in the word.
2019-07-0248 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFood is Love, Food is MedicineThis episode features a conversation with Emmett Findley, the Manager of Communications at God’s Love We Deliver, and Craig Palmer, one of God’s Love We Deliver’s longtime clients.
God’s Love We Deliver is based in New York City and their mission is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. Everyday they prepare and deliver thousands of beautiful meals to people who, because of their illness, are unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. They also off...
2019-06-2035 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDoes the World Need Another Song? On Cookbooks with Matt SartwellJulia talks all things cookbooks with Matt Sartwell, the managing partner of Kitchen Arts & Letters, a bookstore in New York City that specializes in food and drink. Matt came to Kitchen Arts & Letters more than twenty years ago after a career as a book editor. Kitchen Arts & Letters is a small shop but it holds over 12,000 titles that aren’t just cookbooks— they have books on the history of food and operation and technical manuals, plus tons of out-of-print books. They opened in 1983 and Julia Child, James Beard, and Laurie Colwin were among their early customers.
Julia also...
2019-06-1248 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFood is a Conduit with Marci WaldmanIf you’ve ever tuned into CBS This Morning: Saturday and seen a chef or cookbook author get to talk with the anchors about their career and their food on the segment known as "The Dish," producer Marci Waldman was behind what you saw on your television screen. Born and raised in New York City, Marci started working at CBS News when she was 13 years old. Her father, who very sadly passed away after this interview was recorded, worked at CBS News for almost 50 years. Marci pretty much grew up in the building. It’s the only place she’s ever...
2019-06-0655 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBonus: Live with Priya KrishnaOn this special bonus episode, Julia shares the recording of her live interview with the cookbook author Priya Krishna in celebration of her new book Indian-ish which she coauthored with her mother, Ritu Krishna.
Indian-ish is Priya’s loving tribute to her mom’s “Indian-ish” cooking—a trove of one-of-a-kind Indian-American hybrids that are easy to make, clever, practical, and packed with flavor. Think Roti Pizza, Tomato Rice with Crispy Cheddar andWhole Roasted Cauliflower with Green Pea Chutney.
Priya’s mom, Ritu, taught herself to cook after moving to the U.S. while also working as a softwar...
2019-05-2936 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenDon't Boil the Ocean with Kelly FieldsKelly Fields is the force behind Willa Jean, a restaurant and bakery named after her grandmother, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Kelly started cooking and baking when she was young and studied under the legendary chef Susan Spicer. She worked at a number of prestigious restaurants and traveled extensively to work with lots of different chefs before she opened Willa Jean in 2015. Her hard work has been celebrated by pretty much every food media outlet there is and just a couple of weeks ago, Kelly took home a James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef.
2019-05-2158 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenVallery Lomas: It's ComplicatedVallery Lomas, winner of the 3rd season of The Great American Baking Show, is not only a phenomenal baker, but is also a food writer, blogger, photographer, soon-to-be cookbook author, and former lawyer.
She started backing and blogging years ago while she was in law school and while she practiced law, which she did full-time for 8 years.
She was cast on the 3rd Season of the Great American Baking Show, an ABC spin-off of the hugely popular Great British Baking Show. Vallery prepared for, competed on, and won her season, but we never actually got...
2019-05-0847 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenIt’s All About Timing with Mona Talbott and Kate ArdingMona Talbott and Kate Arding are the forces behind Talbott & Arding, a cheese and provisions shop, in Hudson, New York. Mona and Kate approach their food, shop, and community with intention and love. They sat down with Julia to talk about what their lives were like before they opened their business, how they navigate running it together as a couple, and more.
Mona has over 25 years experience in the culinary industry. She began her cooking career as a camp cook in remote logging camps in her native Canada, formalizing her training at the Western Culinary Institute in...
2019-05-0256 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenCécile McLorin Salvant on Food, Music + DesireCécile McLorin Salvant is a jazz vocalist who was born and raised in Miami with her French mother and Haitian father. She started classical piano studies at age 5 and began singing in a children’s choir at 8. Cecile moved to France in 2007 to study both classical voice and also law. When she was there, she began learning about and singing jazz and recorded her first album, Cécile. She soon won the prestigious Thelonious Monk competition. Her second album, WomanChild was nominated for a Grammy. Her third album,* For One To Love*, her fourth, Dreams and Daggers, and her...
2019-04-251h 07Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenElazar Sontag on Cooking, Writing + AnxietyElazar Sontag, a cookbook author, freelance writer, and editor at Serious Eats, talks to Julia about cooking, writing, anxiety, Guy Fieri, and more.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to The Trevor Project.
Some follow-up links!
For more about Elazar, head here.
For more about Elazar's book* Flavors of Oakland*, head here.
For Julia's recipe for Charoset Quinoa from Now & Again, featured by Great Jones, head here. Don't forget to use your discount code for your Great Jones order!
For more about The Trevor Project, head here.
For the interview...
2019-04-1842 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenWhy You with Hali Bey RamdeneJulia speaks with writer and editor Hali Bey Ramdene about her career and the nuances of telling stories about food.
Hali holds a Masters in Gastronomy from Boston University and after school she moved to Des Moines, Iowa where she was the Associate Food Editor at Better Homes and Gardens for three years. She then returned home to Albany, NY where she worked from home for The Kitchn, first as a Food Editor and then as the Food Director. Hali is now happily freelancing. She and Julia talked about the nuances of print and digital, about the...
2019-04-0354 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenStart Before You're Ready with Cecile Richards and Lauren PetersonJulia kicks off the second season of Keep Calm and Cook On with Cecile Richards, who was the president of Planned Parenthood for more than a decade and who Vogue magazine has called a “heroine of the resistance.” Cecile’s late mother, the incredible Ann Richards, was the Governor of Texas and Cecile so clearly follows her mother’s meaningful footsteps doing work fighting for social justice and women’s rights. As she wrote about in her book Make Trouble, Cecile has been an activist ever since she was taken to the principal’s office in 7th grade for protesting t...
2019-03-2754 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBonus: Cookbook Real Talk: An EATT EventThis episode features the first official Equity at the Table event.
It is a recording of a panel conversation moderated by Klancy Miller, an EATT Advisory Board member and author of Cooking Solo. Host Julia Turshen was the author on the panel and was joined by Kara Rota, a cookbook editor, Cindy Uh, a literary agent with Thompson Literary Agency, and Heami Lee, a photographer who shoots cookbooks plus other work. They cover everything from book proposals to writing, shooting, and promoting a book.
The goal of this event was to try and create some...
2019-03-1954 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBonus: Atlanta's Queer Women in FoodOn this special bonus episode of Keep Calm and Cook On, Julia shares a recording of the final event for her Now & Again book tour— a panel conversation at the Atlanta History Center with Rosalind Bentley (of the Atlanta Journal Constitution), Kim Severson (of the New York Times), Deborah VanTrece and Lorraine Lane (of Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours), the cookbook author Virgina Willis, and the literary agent and consultant Lisa Ekus.
In the conversation, the women share their experiences and explore what it means to be a queer-identified woman in food today.
Thanks to the At...
2019-03-1238 minKeep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenBonus: Behind the Scenes at OxoJulia sits down with two of the women behind the scenes at Oxo. Becca Del Monte is a Product Engineer who works mostly on fruit and vegetable tools and Lua O’Brien is a Product Category Director for food storage. They discuss how they got into their careers, what goes into making products (literally and emotionally), and what excites them about their work.
For more about Oxo: Oxo.com.
For more about Julia: JuliaTurshen.com.
2019-03-0740 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Building Community with Liz AlpernLiz Alpern is passionate about bringing people together through food.
She is the creator of Queer Soup Night. Each QSN a time to feel welcome who identify as queer to not feel like an exception in the room. There are now Queer Soup Night communities across the country.
Liz is also the co-founder of The Gefilteria and co-author of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. Liz and her co-founder Jeffery’s mission for their work is to reclaim and revolutionize Ashkenazi cuisine.
In all her free time, Liz is al...
2019-02-2748 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Mentorship with Hawa Hassan and Beth LinskeyHawa Hassan (of Basbaas, a line of Somali condiments) and Beth Linskey (formerly of Beth's Farm Kitchen) join Julia for a conversation about friendship and mentorship and how both can transcend age, race, and place.
Hawa started her company Basbaas because she wanted to shift the narrative about being Somali. In her words, “What could be a better way to do that than through food?” To get her company off the ground, she enlisted her mentor Beth. Beth is the creator of the New York-based jam company Beth’s Farm Kitchen, which she founded in 1981. She ran the co...
2019-02-2041 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Food as Conversation with Yasmin KhanAward-winning cookbook author and former human rights campaigner Yasmin Khan sits down with Julia to talk about her new book, Zaitoun, and the logistics of a career transition, the importance of rest, the way food can be an entry point to conversation, and why we have to hold onto hope.
Yasmin's first book, The Saffron Tales, includes recipes and stories from the Persian Kitchen. It’s a very personal book as Yasmin grew up between Iran, where her mother is from, and England. The Saffron Tales won tons of awards and opened the door for her newest bo...
2019-02-1354 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Being a Leader with Ashley ChristensenAshley Christensen cares as much about people as she does about food. The Raleigh-based chef and restaurateur started cooking when she was in college and now runs an empire of restaurants in the Triangle in North Carolina including Poole’s Diner which she opened over a decade ago. She employs over 200 people and is known for not being afraid to speak up. Ashley’s cooking, restaurants, and cookbook have been celebrated by outlets like Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, and Eater and she’s the recipient of a James Beard Award.
She sat down with J...
2019-02-0748 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Embracing Fear with The Rousseau SistersJamaican sisters, cookbook authors, and restauranteurs Suzanne and Michelle Rousseau join Julia for a conversation about the spirit they bring to their work and the experiences that have informed how they approach life. It’s a conversation about learning to trust your own voice, to embrace fear, to be your own champion, and to just keep going.
Michelle and Suzanne have a long history of collaboration. They’ve run a boutique, a catering business, restaurants; they’ve appeared on television and have co-authored two cookbooks. Their first, Caribbean Potluck, came out in 2014 and their latest, Provisions: The Roots...
2019-01-3049 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Telling Women's Stories with Sara B. FranklinSara B. Franklin is a writer, teacher, oral historian, and a home cook. She teaches food culture and writing at both NYU and at the Wallkill Correctional Facility. Her first book, Edna Lewis: At the Table with An American Original, came out in 2018. Before the book came out, Sara finished her dissertation based on a series of oral history interviews she conducted with Judith Jones, the famous editor who worked not only with Edna Lewis who but also Julia Child and so many more— she also, remarkably, took The Diary of Anne Frank out of the reject pile.
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2019-01-2454 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenAsha Gomez, On Her Own TermsAsha Gomez, the chef and cookbook author, sits down with Julia for a conversation that casts a wide net and covers everything from switching gears to finding your own voice and using it.
They discuss her venue, The Third Space, and the impetus behind it. They talk about finding out what works by first finding out what doesn't. They talk about how Asha continuously explores her two Souths— the area of Southern India where she’s from and the area of the American South where she calls home. They also discuss the perception, and misconception, of Indian food...
2019-01-1849 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenOn Partnership with Jody Williams and Rita SodiJody Williams and Rita Sodi— the women behind Buvette, I Sodi, and Via Carota and the upcoming Bar Pisellino— join Julia for a personal conversation about their partnership, both personal and professional.
They talk about how they feel about labels, what they hope to instill in their employees, and the energy and feel they work to create in their restaurants. "We want to make a place that we miss," said Jody.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to God's Love We Deliver (find out more about the organization here).
For...
2019-01-0950 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenFrom the Ground Up: Sara Elise and Yemi AmuSara Elise, who runs the catering company Harvest & Revel and the creative brand Blind Seed, and Yemi Amu, the co-founder of Oko Farms and specialist in aquaponics, join Julia for a personal conversation about how to create your own path from the ground up.
The conversation centers on figuring out careers in and around food and features honest reflections from both Sara Elise and Yemi about being Black women in food in Brooklyn.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to Fresh Future Farm (find out more about the organization here).
2019-01-0332 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenMother-Daughter Reflections from Von Diaz and Yvonne WebbVon Diaz, the author of Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South, and her mother, Yvonne Webb join Julia for a personal conversation about the experience of creating the book and life after its publication. The takeaway? In Yvonne's words: "you can't change what you don't acknowledge."
The conversation centers on the act of writing down history and talking about it and being honest about it, and how doing that can both cement and advance relationships.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to FoodLab Detroit...
2018-12-1850 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia TurshenReal Talk with Samin Nosrat: A Conversation about Mental Health, Money & PoetrySamin Nosrat is the award-winning, best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, which is also the name of her new Netflix Series. Through her work, Samin has taught thousands of people to trust their instincts in the kitchen— and even learn that they have them in the first place. A true teacher, she demystifies and explains and inspires. Samin and Julia have an open and honest talk about everything from mental health and therapy, to money, and even poetry.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to Emma's To...
2018-12-1158 min
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen90 Years of Wisdom: On Volunteering and Kindness with GeorgineGeorgine Drewes is 90 years old and is a longtime volunteer at Angel Food East, an organization to cooks and delivers homemade meals to homebound clients. Julia and her wife Grace met her when they started volunteering there two years ago. Julia speaks to Georgine about how she got into volunteering, how others can, what it means to her, and the importance of kindness.
There are also answers to listeners' questions and shoutout to Drive Change (find out more about them here). For more about Julia and her work, head here. And thanks to Oxo for supporting this...
2018-12-0624 min