![]() ![]() ![]() She invites modification and is refreshingly aware of cost prohibitive ingredients. Turshen’s recipes are thoughtful and intuitive. To me, it’s as much about what I’m eating as it is how I feel when I’m eating.” For Turshen, healthy food is as much about nutrient dense ingredients as it is about how the food makes you feel, who you eat it with, and the memories specific dishes spur. After all, what does ‘healthy’ even mean? I believe it has a wide, generous definition that’s all about freedom. Rather, she writes: “I describe every single recipe in this book as healthy and encourage a personal definition of the word. Turshen is careful to define what she means by health, and, thankfully, her definition avoids placing moral judgements onto ingredients or force-feeding the virtuosity of greens and beans. Simply Julia is a welcome reprieve from the dozens of diet-specific cookbooks currently on the market, developed, instead, based on a concern for both comfort and health. ![]() There is an entire chapter on chicken, eighty-seven vegetarian, forty-two vegan, and a whopping one-hundred-and-six gluten-free recipes. While the book does not prescribe to a specific dietary need, the recipes included run the gamut. The book, which Turshen describes as her most personal to date, welcomes us into the writer’s home kitchen with one-hundred-and-ten nourishing, no fuss recipes. Reading and cooking out of Simply Julia, Julia Turshen’s newest cookbook, feels something like receiving a warm hug. ![]()
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