Julia Turshen

Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a twice-weekly newsletter, teaches online cooking classes, and farms part-time at Long Season Farm. The Washington Post called her latest cookbook, What Goes with What, “absolutely genius.”

Julia’s debut romance novel, Down to Earth, will be released in June 2026. It’s a queer love story about a vegetable farmer. Get ready! You can preorder it here.

Julia’s previous cookbooks include Simply Julia, a National Bestseller and the recipient of the 2022 IACP Award for Best Cookbook: Health & Nutrition; Now & Again, named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon and an NPR ‘Great Read’; Feed the Resistance, named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater; and Small Victories, named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR.

Julia hosts and produces the IACP-nominated podcast called ‘Keep Calm & Cook On,’ which the New York Times has called “an antidote to diet culture.” She is the founder of Equity at the Table, an inclusive digital directory. Epicurious has named Julia one of the ‘100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time.’ She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and is a member of God’s Love We Deliver’s Culinary Council.

Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse Grace and their many pets. She is also a competitive powerlifter.