Cookbook author and former competitive powerlifter Julia Turshen sits down for a warm, wide-ranging conversation about healing a lifelong eating disorder, the daily labor of home cooking, and how food can heal the people you love.
From her grandparents' Brooklyn bread bakery to her 81-year-old mom's illustrated cooking class notes, Julia shares the threads that have shaped her relationship with food, family, and feeding others. It's a thoughtful, moving episode about the rituals that anchor us — and the people we cook for along the way.
In this episode:
The concept of “the everlasting meal”
Growing up in a workaholic household, and the Brooklyn bread bakery her Jewish grandparents ran
Her mother's illustrated cooking class notes, and their evolving relationship
Navigating disordered eating and finding healing through powerlifting
How food works in her home with spouse Grace, a therapist with Type 1 diabetes
Why investing in neighbors and community is the most important thing any of us can do
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