Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen

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**Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen**

Cookbook author Julia Turshen speaks to some of the most interesting people in and around food. The conversations thoughtfully explore varied themes such as cooking, writing, mental health, relationships (professional and personal), volunteering, and more.

Latest Episodes:

Body Stuff with Grace Bonney Sep 06, 2021

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Julia 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.
There are also some good low-cost support groups available, such as the Center for Discovery’s virtual groups for people of various ages and backgrounds, or Nalgona Positivity Pride’s Sage and Spoon groups for BIPOC folks ages 18 and up.

Books/Authors to Follow:

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight by Dr. Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for The Better) by Dr. Lindo Bacon
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, Edited by Alice Wong
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann with Kristen Joiner

Selected Romance Novelists:

Jasmine Guillory
Casey McQuiston
Morgan Rogers
Selena Montgomery (a.ka. Stacey Abrams!)
Harper Bliss (specifically the Pink Bean series)

Articles/Additional Writers to Follow:

"Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction is a Start. But Don't Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction" by Jasmine Guillory
"How Writing a Cookbook Helped Me Break Free From Diet Culture" by Julia Turshen (excerpted by Healthyish from Simply Julia)
"Smash the Wellness Industry" by Jessica Knoll
Imani Barbarin (Crutches & Spice)

Podcasts / TV Show:

Reem Kassis: One Foot on the Ground, A Hand Reaching Out Jun 28, 2021

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Reem 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.

Ashley C. Ford x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Ashley 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 as the video interview series PROFILE by BuzzFeed News, and Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show, 112BK. She was also the host of the first season of Audible's literary interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Media (2017), Brooklyn Magazine's Brooklyn 100 (2016),Time Out New York's New Yorkers of The Year (2017), and Variety’s New Power of New York (2019).

Follow-up links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Books Are Magic, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Ashely C. Ford, head here

Deb Perelman x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Deb 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.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Book Larder, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Deb Perelman, head here
For a cute photo of Winky (one of Julia's dogs), who makes an 'appearance' during this event, head here

Rochelle Udell Turshen (Julia's Mom!) x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Rochelle 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.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Rodeph Shalom, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Rochelle Udell Turshen, head here
For an Instagram Reel of the Coconut Marble Loaf that Julia demonstrated during this event, head here

Nik Sharma x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Nik 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 links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Now Serving, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Nik Sharma, head here
For more about the behind-the-scenes of the Kale & Mushroom pot pie photo from Simply Julia, head here

Antoni Porowski x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Antoni 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 links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Sixth & I, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Antoni, head here
For the photo of Julia's grandmother that Antoni and Julia discuss, head here

Dorie Greenspan x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Dorie 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 much more. Also, in very small world news, they talked about how Dorie and her husband Michael grew up going to Julia's grandparents’ bakery in Brooklyn.

Follow-up links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Oblong Books, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Dorie Greenspan, head here

Claire Saffitz x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Claire 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 graduated with honors from Harvard University in 2009, studied classic French cuisine and pastry at École Grégoire Ferrandi in Paris in 2012, and completed her Masters degree in History at McGill University in 2014, where she focused on culinary History in the Early Modern Era. Her first cookbook, Dessert Person, came out in October 2020.

Follow-up links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Harvard Bookstore who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Claire Saffitz, head here

Pati Jinich x Simply Julia Virtual Book Tour May 17, 2021

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Pati 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 the mother of three sons.

Follow-up links:

For more about this season's partner, check out BetterThanBouillon.Com
To order a signed copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here
For more about Book Passage, who hosted this conversation, head here
For over 50 more episodes of Keep Calm and Cook On, head here
For more about Pati Jinich, head here
For the photo that Pati and Julia discuss that depicts Julia giving her great-grandmother and her friends a lesson in making fruit salad, head here