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.
Read More:
Our love was a stack of pancakes covered in butter, maple syrup and whipped cream. And then it wasn’t. // Washington Post
To Change Racial Disparity in Food, Let’s Start With Cookbooks by Julia Turshen // Eater
The Resistance is Hungry by Julia Turshen // The New York Times
Building Tools to Create Equity by Julia Turshen // James Beard Foundation
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