Off-Site Event: WHAT GOES WITH WHAT by Julia Turshen

We are thrilled to host Julia Turshen to celebrate the release of her new cookbook, What Goes with What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities. For this event, Julia will be joined in conversation by Monica Eng.

Please note: This is a ticketed off-site event at Swedish American Museum! Each ticket includes a copy of the cookbook. Masks are required at the event!

From bestselling cookbook author Julia Turshen comes an original, inspired, and interactive approach to cooking that takes the guesswork out of everyday meals.

Julia Turshen is a home cook’s best friend. Known for her simple, no-frills, yet utterly satisfying recipes—as well as her authentic, relatable, problem-solving approach—hers are the cookbooks we all turn to when we want to know what else we can make with some ground turkey, or if we can pull off dessert with a few basic pantry ingredients. In essence, we look to Julia when we want to know What Goes with What: to understand how we can transform the seemingly boring contents of our fridge into an exciting meal.

Now, in her latest book, Julia offers readers a new way to think about cooking, one that focuses on mastering the alchemy of a meal—and then offers endless iterations. Organized into six sections (salads and sandwiches; soups, stews and braises; rice, more grains, and pasta; vegetables; mains; and baked goods), Julia arms readers with 20 charts and 100 recipes that teach them how to build a successful dish, while making ample room for creativity and personal preference.

For readers of tried and true cookbooks like Melissa Clark’s Dinner and Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen series, as well as fans of Molly Baz and Alison Roman’s breezy yet craveable recipes, What Goes with What will become an instant classic and find its place as a foundational cookbook for a new generation of home cooks.

JULIA TURSHEN is the bestselling author of Now & Again, Feed the Resistance, Small Victories, and Simply Julia and has coauthored numerous other cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning In Bibi’s Kitchen. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast Keep Calm and Cook On and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Saveur, and more. She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food, and is a member of God’s Love We Deliver’s Culinary Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse, Grace, and their many pets.

Monica Eng is an award-winning, veteran Chicago reporter. She has worked in Chicago journalism for more than three decades starting at the Chicago Sun-Times and moving to the Chicago Tribune and WBEZ. She has served as an Axios Chicago reporter since the summer of 2021.

Accessibility: This event will be hosted at the Swedish American Museum (5211 N Clark St) which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required at the event. Please contact events@womenandchildrenfirst.com at least 14 days before the event to request ASL-interpretation or Cart Captionining. For questions, other access needs, or scholarship tickets, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.