Online Event
Salt + Spine Cookbook Club
Dinner Party with Julia Turshen
Wed | Mar 24, 2021 | 5:30–7P PT
Featured Author Julia Turshen
Guest Host Brian Hogan Stewart
The Salt + Spine Cookbook Club is thrilled to welcome Julia Turshen and her hot-off-the-presses cookbook, Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food. Join Julia, Brian Hogan Stewart of Salt + Spine, and other club participants for a virtual Dinner Party. Cook along with the author (or just watch!), enjoy the opportunity to ask questions, and connect with other cookbook lovers.
Please note: The Salt + Spine Cookbook Club Dinner Party is not a formal cooking class. It is a cooking-optional event meant for gathering together, interacting with the author and other club participants, and celebrating an exceptional book and cookbook writer.
The Salt & Spine Cookbook Club is like a regular book club…but with a special twist. Each month we focus on one book—reading, cooking and connecting about it on social media (see “Participate” below). The bonus: every month we get together live with the author for a Dinner Party, sponsored by Hardcover Cook, the subscription box and ingredient shop for cookbook lovers. Currently, the Dinner Party is virtual (via Zoom); we look forward to the day when the club can meet in person at The Civic Kitchen.
Menu | Recipes
Jalapeño Popper Stuffed Chicken
Ingredient/Equipment Prep
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Participate
There’s no charge to take part in other Cookbook Club activities:LISTEN
Start the month by tuning in to Julia Turshen's chat with Salt + Spine host Brian Hogan Stewart about her latest cookbook, her podcast, and more. Already listened? Take a moment to re-visit the episode.
Julia Turshen on Salt + Spine
COOK
Grab your copy of Simply Julia and pick some recipes you’d like to make this month. Click here for featured recipes from Julia's visit with Salt + Spine to get you started.
Don’t have a copy of Simply Julia yet? You can find the book at Julia's local go-to shop, Oblong Books, or purchase from Dinner Party sponsor Hardcover Cook or our friends at Omnivore Books, or support other local bookstores through Bookshop or Indiebound. You can also check local libraries for hard copies or digital versions.
SHARE & ENGAGE
Show off what you’re cooking from Simply Julia! Snap a pic and make sure to use the hashtag #TalkCookbooks when sharing. And check out what others are making, too!
Plus, learn from Julia as she shares cooking tips, recipes, behind-the-scenes content, and more—exclusively on our social media pages.
This salt + spine cookbook club dinner party is live and interactive.
The Dinner Party is held via Zoom, and you only need to purchase one spot per household. After registering, you will receive instructions for logging into the event. If applicable, cook-along recipes will be available 48 hours prior to the start of the event.
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Featured Author
Julia Turshen
JULIA TURSHEN is the bestselling author of 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). She also hosts the IACP-nominated podcast called ‘Keep Calm and Cook On.’ Her forthcoming cookbook, Simply Julia, will be out on March 2, 2021.
Julia has coauthored numerous cookbooks and has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Saveur, and more.
Epicurious has called her one of the 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time and The New York Times has described her “at the forefront of the new generation of authentic, approachable authors.”
Julia not only loves cooking and writing about food, she also loves talking about it. She regularly travels for media appearances, to speak about her work, sit on panels, moderate conversations, and do cooking demonstrations around the country. She’s also the host of the podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On.
She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is a member of God’s Love We Deliver’s Culinary Council, and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food.
Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets.
More about Julia Guest Host
Brian Hogan Stewart
BRIAN HOGAN STEWART is the host and creator of Salt + Spine. He is a once-budding chef who passed on a culinary school degree to pursue journalism. He’s not a professional cook nor a cookbook author—but an avid home cook and an enthusiastic cookbook collector, with a collection now in the hundreds. (That may seem like a lot to some, but he envies Diana Henry’s 4,000-book library almost daily!)
Brian has worked extensively in journalism and new media, including leading a media company featuring a daily newspaper with circulation of 50,000+, a nightly newscast, and multiple digital properties. He has conducted hundreds (and hundreds…) of interviews throughout his career, including time spent covering food culture and personalities in the midwest.
Brian is a native of Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism, English, and American studies. He recently completed his Global MBA in food and wine at Italy’s Bologna Business School.
