Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, in conversation with Julia Turshen about Intuitive Eating and so much more. Evelyn Tribole is an award-winning registered dietitian, author, and speaker who also has a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. Evelyn has written many books, including Intuitive Eating which she coauthored with Elyse Resch and is currently in its fourth edition. Evelyn’s latest book is Intuitive Eating for Every Day. Evelyn and Julia talk about how both of their ...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 53
God’s Love Deliver believes that food is medicine. And that food is love. God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. They have been serving every New York City borough since 1985 and now also serve clients in parts of New Jersey, Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau Counties. Their work is a model for communities across the country. To support the health of their clients, God’s Love We Deliver also provides o...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 52
Kristina Gill is a Nashville-born food and travel photographer and cookbook author who lives and works in Rome. In addition to her award-winning creative work in food, she is also a humanitarian advisor and supports the United Nations' World Food Programme. Helpful follow-up links: For more about Kristina and work, head here . To follow Kristina on Instagram, head here . For more about Julia's new book Simply Julia , head here . For a signed copy of Simply Julia , head here to order from Oblong ...
Feb 22, 2021•49 min•Ep. 51
For years Aubrey Gordon, author of the newly released book What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat , wrote anonymously as " Your Fat Friend " about the social realities of life as a very fat person. Her work has been translated into 19 languages and covered around the world. She has written for many notable outlets, including this recent op-ed in the New York Times, Leave Fat Kids Alone , and she is a columnist with SELF Magazine , where she writes about health, weight stigma, and fatnes...
Feb 15, 2021•54 min•Ep. 50
Dr. Jessica B. Harris, award-winning food historian and one of the world’s leading experts on the foodways of African Diaspora, and Klancy Miller, Founder of For the Culture magazine and author of Cooking Solo , join Julia to discuss the first issue of For the Culture , legacy, money, and more. Dr. Harris is the author of twelve critically acclaimed, essential cookbooks including Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking , Sky Juice and Flying Fish: Traditional Caribbean C...
Feb 08, 2021•51 min•Ep. 49
Mavis-Jay Sanders and Sicily Sierra Johnson, the couple behind Food Plus People, join Julia to discuss their business, intentions, and more. Helpful follow-up links: For more about Food Plus People and to order their products, head here . To follow Food Plus People on Instagram, head here . To support Food Plus People's Go Fund Me, head here . For more about Julia's new book Simply Julia , head here . For a signed/personalized copy of Simply Julia from Oblong Books, head here . For more episodes...
Feb 01, 2021•52 min•Ep. 48
Pati Jinich is the star of Pati’s Mexican Table, her PBS television series that has aired for 9 seasons and gets nearly 30 million views in the United States. The show has received three James Beard Awards for Best Culinary Television Program and Pati has also won the award for Outstanding Personality/TV Host. The show has also received three Daytime Emmy nominations and is streamed in 80 countries worldwide. Pati is also a celebrated cookbook author and the mother of three sons. She and Julia d...
Jan 25, 2021•50 min•Ep. 47
Julia Turshen in conversation with Vivian Howard, restauranter, star of two PBS shows (A Chef's Life and Somewhere South) and bestselling cookbook author (Deep Run Roots and This Will Make It Taste Good). Helpful links: For more about Vivian, click here . To order a copy of This Will Make it Taste Good , click here . For more about Julia, click here . To pre-order a signed copy of Simply Julia , click here . For more about OXO, click here . For their turntables, click here ....
Jan 11, 2021•45 min•Ep. 46
Zoe Adjonyoh— chef, writer, activist & entrepreneur— started Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen in July 2010 with a pot of peanut butter stew and the intention to start an African food revolution by bringing African food to the masses. She is the author of 'Zoe's Ghana Kitchen,' a wonderful cookbook. Zoe currently works at the intersection of food, culture, identity and politics and has been driven by the need to create space for change in the food landscape. She is one of the founders of Black Book, a glo...
Dec 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 45
Julia talks to Lindo Bacon, PhD about connection, compassion, and more. Lindo's work is considered be life-changing and transformative for many, including Julia. They are the author of the best-selling book, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight , and the co-author of Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight . Their latest book is Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While T...
Dec 14, 2020•30 min•Ep. 44
Julia kicks off Season Four of Keep Calm and Cook On with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones, the two women behind Food Heaven, which is, in their words: “a multimedia platform founded by two black registered dietitians & BFFs. We help people transform the way they eat and find joy in food through the practice of intuitive eating and body respect.” This episode clarifies ideas and terms like health at every size, intuitive eating, and the difference between a dietician and a nutritionist. Additio...
Dec 07, 2020•54 min•Ep. 43
On this holiday bonus episode of Keep Calm & Cook On: Carla Hall, former co-host of The Chew and contestant on Top Chef, talks to Julia about authenticity, imposter syndrome, and more. Follow-up links: Carla Hall Carla's Instagram Helen Keller International Great Jones (enter the code 'CALM' at checkout for 15% off your order!) Julia Turshen...
Dec 16, 2019•54 min•Ep. 42
Yemi Amu, from Oko Farms in Brooklyn, talks to Julia about aquaponics, expansion, and the healing capacity of her work. Yemi is the farmer and educator behind Oko Farms in Brooklyn, New York, an aquaponics farm that not only produces fish and produce and flowers, but also works as an educational farm. Our food community is at its best with people like Yemi doing the work she’s doing. She’s in the middle of raising money to expand into a second location at the Weeksville Heritage Center— please c...
Nov 20, 2019•56 min•Ep. 40
Lezli Harvell is a board-certified pediatric dentist, who has spent her career providing oral healthcare to healthy and special needs children. She and her husband run a center called Dental Kidz, with a Z, in Newark, New Jersey. She’s also a mother of 5 daughters. Along with a passion for good health and family, Lezli is passionate about food and about breaking the antiquated industry traditions that go along with it. A dual citizen of the United States and Jamaica, Lezli is the creator and cur...
Nov 13, 2019•42 min•Ep. 39
Lagusta Yearwood founded Lagusta’s Luscious, an artisinal vegan chocolate company in 2003. Over the last 16 years, she has grown the chocolate business into 3 brick-and-mortars— a chocolate shop and a café in New Paltz, New York, and a sweets shop in Manhattan’s East Village. She also just came out with a brand new cookbook titled SWEET + SALTY: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels and More. Lagusta and Julia talk about Lagusta's businesses, her book, the complication of operating a b...
Nov 04, 2019•48 min•Ep. 38
Alexander Smalls is a modern Renaissance man. A world-renowned opera singer with both a Grammy and a Tony under his belt, Alexander is also a visionary restaurateur who has brought 5 important New York restaurants into the world— The Cecil, Minton’s, Café Beulah, Sweet Ophelia’s, and Shoebox Cafe. He’s also a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author. Most of all, he’s a warm and welcoming host. He and Julia speak about home, collecting, grief, legacy, storytelling, and, of course, food. Follow-...
Oct 30, 2019•46 min•Ep. 37
Alison Roman is a cookbook author, columnist for The New York Times, and all around busy person. She and Julia sat down to talk about the work they do as cookbook authors and what some of their challenges are and also what motivates them. Follow-up links: For more about Alison Roman and her new book Nothing Fancy, head here . For more about Great Jones, head here . For more about Oko Farms, head here . For more about Julia Turshen, head here ....
Oct 22, 2019•49 min•Ep. 36
Bonnie Slotnick, of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, talks with Julia about her life and career. Plus shout-outs to Oko Farms and Save NYC, ideas for apples, a curated guide to the Hudson Valley from Julia and her wife, Grace. Show follow-up links: Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks Help Oko Farms! Save NYC Applesauce Cake with Cream Cheese + Honey Frosting Dorie Greenspan on Baked Apples Thanks to Oxo for sponsoring this episode! Hudson Valley Farm Stands + Restaurants Links: Westwind Orchard in Accord Saunde...
Oct 15, 2019•53 min•Ep. 35
' Great Chefs' was a series of cooking shows and cookbooks that made over 700 episodes. Each episode was recorded entirely in a professional kitchen rather than a production studio, and each consisted of 3 segments— an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. Each dish was made by a different chef and the whole thing was super straight-forward. No bells or whistles or fancy camerawork or anything. Just straight-up cooking. And the instructions were incredibly clear thanks to the voiceover work of th...
Oct 08, 2019•37 min•Ep. 34
Lisa Gross, the founder of League of Kitchens, and Mab Abbasgholizadeh, one of their instructors, sit down with Julia and talk about the organization and its impact. The conversation covers a range of meaningful topics including activism, feminism, sexuality, identity, ideology, immigration, home, memory, trauma, healing, agency, cooking, and love. There are also answers to listeners' questions about cooking. Follow-up links: For more about League of Kitchens and to sign up for one of their clas...
Oct 01, 2019•53 min•Ep. 33
You might know Elle Simone Scott from the PBS cooking show America’s Test Kitchen where she is a regular on-air contributor. You might know some of her other work without even realizing it— she has created beautiful food behind the scenes as a food stylist and culinary producer for the Food Network, Cooking Channel, and Bravo. In 2013 she incorporated SheChef, a networking organization for women chefs of color. Elle’s career began in social work, and she and Julia talk about the impact that’s ha...
Sep 25, 2019•46 min•Ep. 32
Karen Akunowicz, named Best Chef: Northeast in 2018 by James Beard Foundation, is well-known from her stint on Bravo’s Top Chef , her time as Executive Chef at Myers + Chang in Boston, and from Myers + Chang at Home, the cookbook she co-authored with Joanne Chang. She owns and runs her new restaurant Fox & the Knife in Boston with her spouse, LJ Johnson, plus their poké shop, SloPoke. Julia sat down with Karen and LJ to talk about their partnership in and out of their businesses and how they...
Sep 17, 2019•54 min•Ep. 31
The 3rd Season of Keep Calm and Cook On kicks off with Antoni Porowski from Netflix’s Queer Eye and author of the brand new cookbook Antoni in the Kitchen . He and Julia cover everything from imposter syndrome to throwing dinner parties to how to handle being an empathetic person. One lucky listener is eligible to win a copy of Antoni’s new cookbook! To enter for a chance to win, leave a review of Keep Calm and Cook On on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts, screenshot it, and send...
Sep 09, 2019•50 min•Ep. 30
Listen to a live recording of the "Goodbye Food World, Hello City Hall" panel from the Eater Young Guns Summit with Shakirah Simley and Julia Turshen. The Summit was a day-long event put on by Eater that celebrated young talent in the restaurant industry and the issues that are important to them. The panel was a purposeful conversation with tangible ideas about all sorts of ways we can all use food to get involved in our communities. Shakirah Simley lives by the motto: “If the personal is politi...
Aug 13, 2019•25 min•Ep. 29
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker and her new book of essays, Trick Mirror , is about to come out in August. Before writing for The New Yorker , Jia worked as a deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Jia and Julia talked about writing, real life versus online and print versus digital, how she learned to cook when she was in the Peace Corps., the role of cooking in her life now, a bit about her new book and her anticipation of it being out in the word....
Jul 02, 2019•48 min•Ep. 28
Jocelyn Guest and Erika Nakamura are the butchers behind J&E SmallGoods, a newly launched quote-on-quote Mom & Mom Shop that makes mail-order hot dogs, kielbasa, and bratwurst. There are more meats are in the pipeline. They have dedicated their careers to supporting local family farms that raise animals with big space, clean water, good feed and respect. They believe you shouldn’t have to support the industrial food supply just to enjoy hot dog. Jocelyn and Erika are partners in both bus...
Jun 27, 2019•52 min•Ep. 27
This episode features a conversation with Emmett Findley, the Manager of Communications at God’s Love We Deliver , and Craig Palmer, one of God’s Love We Deliver’s longtime clients. God’s Love We Deliver is based in New York City and their mission is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. Everyday they prepare and deliver thousands of beautiful meals to people who, because of...
Jun 20, 2019•36 min•Ep. 26
Julia talks all things cookbooks with Matt Sartwell, the managing partner of Kitchen Arts & Letters, a bookstore in New York City that specializes in food and drink. Matt came to Kitchen Arts & Letters more than twenty years ago after a career as a book editor. Kitchen Arts & Letters is a small shop but it holds over 12,000 titles that aren’t just cookbooks— they have books on the history of food and operation and technical manuals, plus tons of out-of-print books. They opened in 198...
Jun 12, 2019•49 min•Ep. 25
If you’ve ever tuned into CBS This Morning: Saturday and seen a chef or cookbook author get to talk with the anchors about their career and their food on the segment known as "The Dish," producer Marci Waldman was behind what you saw on your television screen. Born and raised in New York City, Marci started working at CBS News when she was 13 years old. Her father, who very sadly passed away after this interview was recorded, worked at CBS News for almost 50 years. Marci pretty much grew up in t...
Jun 06, 2019•56 min•Ep. 24
On this special bonus episode, Julia shares the recording of her live interview with the cookbook author Priya Krishna in celebration of her new book Indian-ish which she coauthored with her mother, Ritu Krishna. Indian-ish is Priya’s loving tribute to her mom’s “Indian-ish” cooking—a trove of one-of-a-kind Indian-American hybrids that are easy to make, clever, practical, and packed with flavor. Think Roti Pizza, Tomato Rice with Crispy Cheddar andWhole Roasted Cauliflower with Green Pea Chutney...
May 29, 2019•36 min•Ep. 23
