Julia Turshen

Julia Turshen (born 1985) is an American bestselling cookbook author, food writer, cook, and food equity advocate. 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. She hosts the podcast Keep Calm and Cook On and writes a monthly column in Food & Wine called The Interview. She has written for the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, and Bon Appétit. She serves on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), a digital directory of people of color, women, and non-binary individuals in food. She also regularly provides meals for Citizen Action New York, which led to her 2016 appointment as developer of the organization's food team. 2Early 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 interes