Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs

From Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook co-writer comes a bible for healthy home cooking. Hoping to inspire recreational cooks who want accessible deliciousness and clever ideas for great cooking, Julia Turschen takes you through 95 meticulously developed and yummy recipes for weeknight dinners and indispensible crowd pleasers. Becoming a great cook means mastering one delicious thing at a time, and taking pleasure in the small victories - charming kitchen wisdom that Julia has learned from her own rich life in food. A respected, well-liked food writer and seasoned recipe developer, she’s had a long, wonderful relationship with food her whole life, and this cookbook displays her love, strategic thinking and enjoyment of food and cooking for you to enjoy as well - the recipes as special and warmly authoritative as Julia herself.

Praise for Small Victories Small Victories is so lively, so encouraging, and so filled with easy solutions that it’s the perfect book for someone who loves food but is nervous in the kitchen. I’ll be giving it to every young cook I know. Ruth Reichl

I’ve been waiting for this book! I love Julia’s cooking and had a few lessons from her. She knows how to make things that are easy, delicious, and chic! Sofia Coppola

Small Victories is precisely the kind of book that I can give to two kinds of people: to my non-cooking friends to let them know they can build their game, and to my professional chef friends to prove that there is always more to learn and that simple doesn’t mean dumbed-down. Mario Batali

Julia’s Small Victories is a HUGE VICTORY! It is the best cookbook ever; a stunning visual memoir that you’ll soon have filled with post-its and turned-down pages. Sally Field