NEW YORK (AP) — Best-selling cookbook author Julia Turshen concentrates on the raw material of each recipe — ingredients, utensils and ounces. But behind the science is something else. Food, she says, is just a vehicle for stories. By that measure, her latest offering, “Simply Julia,” is as close to an autobiography as a cookbook can be. It includes handwritten recipe titles, family snapshots, photographs at home, and peeks into her life. Each meal has a strong tie to the people and places close to Turshen’s heart. Along with the dishes there are also personal essays about body image, fat phobia and anxiety.
