Remembering that a lot of things that we perceive to be effortless

actually require so much effort, I think that helps us all just relax a little bit.

Oh. Let it out. Let it out. Let it out.

I'm your host. I'm your host, welcome back. This is Let It Out. I'm your host, Katie Delbout. This week I speak with

chef and cookbook author Julia Tertian. Julia is a writer. She actually studied poetry. We get into

all of that in this week's episode, but she has written multiple cookbooks and co-authored numerous cookbooks.

She's written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal,

Bonne Batte. She's one of the greatest home cooks of our time, and the New York Times described

her at the forefront of the new generation of authentic approachable authors.

Julia not only loves cooking and writing, but she loves talking about food, and she has a podcast

herself, which we get into.

And this week's episode is so much more than talking about food and eating and being a chef. We talk about creativity and

writing and habits and routines as we do on the show, you know, which is a theme regardless

of who I'm talking to, whether it's a chef or a musician. And you'll hear how creative and

how much on the same page, Julia and I are about body image and the connection

between eating and how we feel and our body image and the negative effects of the diet industry

and the connection between food and comfort and connection to other people

and our humanness, it's such a tremendous conversation that I'm splitting it into two. So this

week you'll hear the first part and next week you'll hear part two. My show has always been long

and last week when I had visual artist Camilla Ingstrom on,

I split that conversation into two episodes, and I would love your feedback. Do you want to get

all the continent at once? Do you like it being dosed out to you over two weeks? I think when a

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