Julia Turshen - Simply Julia

SMALL VICTORIES

This is Ms. Turshens first cookbook as a solo author, but she has cowritten others with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Dana Cowin. Shes also a recipe tester and developera skill that shines through in a book aimed at aspiring, eager home cooks; you wont find any molecular gastronomy in these pages. Ms. Turshen is a self-deprecating, warm, and charming writer.

Wall Street Journal

Julias book is like herits totally accessible.

Ina Garten

Small Victories is so lively, so encouraging, and so filled with easy solutions that its the perfect book for someone who loves food but is nervous in the kitchen. Ill be giving it to every young cook I know.

Ruth Reichl

An inspiring addition to any kitchen bookshelf.

Real Simple

Rich in ideas, and far from basic in its span of recipes, this is a book that earns a place on any shelf.

Nigella Lawson

Julias Small Victories is a HUGE VICTORY! It is the best cookbook ever; a stunning visual memoir that youll soon have filled with Post-its and turned-down pages.

Sally Field

NOW & AGAIN

Turshen... is at the forefront of the new generation of authentic, approachable authors aiming to empower readers who might be newish to the kitchen.

New York Times

Its not just a book of gorgeous, thoughtfully curated menus for hosting a gathering. Its also an inspiring manifesto about how and why we cook today.

Eater

Its like having your best friend with you in the kitchen, if she happened to be a really, really good chef and teacher.

mindbodygreen

Now & Again is a kitchen essential tool.

Carla Hall

No one is better than Turshen at coming up with unpretentious, delicious, and approachable recipes for home cooks of varying skill levels. An essential purchase for circulating cookbook collections.

Library Journal Starred Review

Julias personal stories, approachable recipes, and conversational tone suggest that youre sitting at her kitchen counter shelling peas or peeling carrots.

Vivian Howard

Julia invites us to broaden our tastebuds with her fresh, approachable, never-fussy cooking. Now & Again leaves no dish and no one behind....

Yotam Ottolenghi

Julia Turshens new book is a rich compendium of recipes that are reassuringly doable, full of inviting flavor, designed to make life easier and bring pleasure to the kitchen as much as to the table. This would be quite enough, but added to this, Turshen elaborates on the recipes, adding advice as to how the various components of a recipe can be tweaked and turned into other dishes andthis is always a joy to the home cookhow leftovers can be refashioned into further meals.

Nigella Lawson

FEED THE RESISTANCE

What an incredible reminder of the power of food to bring people together. This book will inspire you, will make you want to talk, to listen, and to act. It will also make you very hungry.

Abbi Jacobson

Julia Turshen is my she-ro. In Feed the Resistance, she gives us a manifesto for food activism.

Dr. Jessica B. Harris

... empowering and inspiring anyone with a kitchen to help feed a movement.

Eater

Now & Again

Feed the Resistance

Small Victories

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Cover photograph by Winnie Au

Photographs and styling by Melina Hammer

Personal photographs from Julias archive

Photographs by Winifred Au

FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition MARCH 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-299334-2

Version 01082021

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-299333-5

IN MEMORY OF GEORGINE + TURK

Georgine taught us that youre never too old to give back,
make a friend, or change your mind about something.

Turk was the greatest cat that ever lived, our sweet boy.

I LOVED MAKING THIS BOOK. Its all about healthy comfort food and it explores and celebrates the many definitions of healthy and comfort.

Its not only the most personal book Ive ever written, its also the most practical. It has ten useful chapters including weeknight go-tos and vegan one-pot meals that are great whether or not youre vegan. Theres a chapter thats all salad dressings and easy sauces. There are Seven Lists at the back of the book that cover everything from what to do with leftover buttermilk to prompts for meaningful mealtime conversations. There are also reference lists of all of the vegetarian recipes (87!), vegan ones (42!), additional dairy/egg-free recipes (21!), and gluten-free ones (a whopping 106!). Theres a chapter of just chicken recipes. Theres something for everyone and all of it is simple.

Since Im a home cook just like you, when I write recipes, I think about the entire experience of making the recipe, from shopping to cleaning up. Home cooking is, after all, so much more than cooking. Its planning and schlepping and remembering what needs to be used up and wiping down surfaces and peeling things and washing dishes. In my recipes, if you can use one bowl instead of two, Ill never tell you to use the extra bowl. I wont tell you how long to cook something without also telling you what should happen within that time. Our kitchens are all different. My stove may not be as hot as yours, so what takes me eight minutes might take you five. I get that.

All of these recipes also use widely available, affordable ingredients. If I cant find it within half an hour of my house (which is in a rural area), you wont find it in this book. And I will forever champion the belief that no one is required to spend a lot of money, time, or effort to make a good dinner. Delicious food does not have to be complicated. Cooking, when its at its best, is a way to take care of each other, not compete with each other. Remember that for every beautiful food photo you see on Instagram (or in this book for that matter), theres a tall pile of dishes in a sink somewhere. Literally and figuratively.

I TALK TO OTHER HOME COOKS ALL THE TIME. Whether its my father, my mother-in-law, my closest friends, or the many people Ive gotten to know online and in person on book tours, I am always asking people what theyre cooking and also what keeps them from cooking. So many of us love to cook, but we dont always have the time we wish we had in the kitchen. We want to support our local vendors but dont always have room in our schedules to shop at different stores. We care about where our food comes from, even if we dont always make it to the farmers market. I get it. I love to cook. I have dedicated my life to it. I work from home. My kitchen is basically my office. But sometimes even I dont feel like cooking.