Claire Saffitz in conversation with Julia Turshen about Julia's new cookbook Simply Julia. Thanks to Harvard Bookstore for hosting this conversation!

Claire is a freelance recipe developer, author, and video host. Previously, she was Senior Food Editor at Bon Appétit magazine, where she worked for five years in the test kitchen. She hosted the series Gourmet Makes on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel, where she used her classical pastry knowledge to reverse engineer popular snack foods and candy. Claire was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and now lives in New York City. She graduated with honors from Harvard University in 2009, studied classic French cuisine and pastry at École Grégoire Ferrandi in Paris in 2012, and completed her Masters degree in History at McGill University in 2014, where she focused on culinary History in the Early Modern Era. Her first cookbook, Dessert Person, came out in October 2020.

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