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Julia Turshen on the power of leftovers and community cookbooks
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Julia Turshen on the power of leftovers and community cookbooks

“[Cookbooks] absolutely have the power to be catalysts for change. … There's a tremendous legacy of cookbooks, and of food, being part of movements."

This week we’re excited to welcome Julia Turshen to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Julia is an acclaimed food writer and cookbook author of Small Victories, Feed the Resistance, and her latest Now & Again, which redefines the art of leftovers for home cooks everywhere.

Julia has worked on many cookbooks, including co-authoring Gweneth Paltrow’s books and has published three of her own. Her first, Small Victories, was widely praised, and called one of the best cookbooks of 2016 by The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, Lucky Peach, and many other food outlets.

“I wasn’t a kid who had an Easy Bake Oven. I had an actual oven.”

In today’s episode, we’re talking with Julia about leftovers; bringing your full identity to cookbook writing; her latest project, Equity at the Table; and how cookbooks can be tools for social and political change.

Plus, we’re talking to Shakirah Simley about Nourish/Resist, the initiative she helped launch following the 2016 election.

And we’re stopping by Omnivore Books in San Francisco to chat with Celia Sack.

We sat down with Julia at San Francisco's The Civic Kitchen cooking school to #TalkCookbooks.

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We tell the compelling stories behind cookbooks you won't get anywhere else. Featuring interviews with leading authors, we explore the art and craft of cookbooks, looking at both new and vintage cookbooks and the inspirations behind them … the compelling people who create them … and their impact on home cooks and the culinary world.