Julia Turshen: Best-Selling Cookbook Author, Food Equity Advocate, and Cook

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Julia 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 influenced her voice and perspective and ultimately enabled her to fuse her passions of food and writing to create a beloved career.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who What Wear.
0:12.4	And this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:19.8	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:24.2	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:30.1	Today I am so excited to sit down with the incredible home cook, food equity advocate, host
0:37.6	of the Keep Call and Cook podcast, and prolific cookbook author Julia Tertian.
0:44.4	Julia has been writing cookbooks for years.
0:47.2	She's collaborated with massive names like Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Bittman, and Sean
0:51.8	George, and put out four cookbooks of her own.
0:55.4	In total, Julia has worked on 15.
0:59.4	In 2016, her first solo cookbook, Small Victory's, was an immediate hit, named as one of the
1:05.1	best cookbooks of the year by NPR and The New York Times.
1:09.5	Julia's second book, Feed the Resistance, came out just a year later and was deemed
1:13.8	either's best cookbook of 2017, and her third book now and again was both Amazon's
1:19.6	best cookbook of 2018 and an NPR great read.
1:24.5	Now Julia is releasing her highly anticipated fourth book, Simply Julia, which comes out
1:30.4	tomorrow, March 2nd.
1:32.8	With an emphasis on healthy comfort food, this book is full, like 110 recipes full, of
1:39.0	the unfussy yet deeply satisfying meals Julia is famous for, with a focus on affordable
1:45.2	and accessible ingredients and let me tell you, it is beautifully done.
1:51.2	But before Julia began writing books of her own, she held a variety of other jobs in
1:56.2	the food world and a lot of them, specifically as a private chef.
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