Julia Turshen is a writer who specializes in food. Her cookbook—Small Victories—is forthcoming in 2016 from Chronicle Books. She is also a producer and private chef who was born and bred in New York. She co-authored Spain: A Culinary Road Trip with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow, assisted Paltrow on her new book My Father's Daughter, and has written extensively for GOOP.com, interviewmagazine.com, and Food & Wine.