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Julia Turshen

Julia Turshen (born 1985) is an American cookbook author, food writer, cook, and food equity advocate. She lectures on food and home cooking and has published four solo books on the subject and has contributed to many others in collaboration or as a writer. She has collaborated with Gwyneth Paltrow, Dana Cowin, and Mario Batali. Her 2020 collaboration with Hawa Hassan, ''In Bibi's Kitchen'', won the 2022 James Beard Foundation award for Best International Cookbook.

She hosts the podcast ''Keep Calm and Cook On'' and writes a monthly column in ''Food & Wine'' called The Interview. She has written for the ''New York Times'', ''Condé Nast Traveler'', ''Vogue'', and ''Bon Appétit''. She serves on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), a digital directory of people of color, women, and non-binary individuals in food. She also regularly provides meals for Citizen Action of New York, which led to her 2016 appointment as developer of the organization's food team. Provided by Wikipedia