Binding Agents: A Cook/Book Shop
908 Christian StreetWhere my romance readers at?? We are over the moon to welcome Julia Turshen to Binding Agents in celebration of her first novel, published by the brilliant team at 831 Stories.
You know and love Julia as a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. While her latest book isn't full of recipes, it's no less craveable: a steamy queer love story set against the backdrop of a vegetable farm in upstate New York.
Julia will be joined in conversation by the great and good local author Emma Copley Eisenberg (Fat Swim, Housemates). Tickets include a copy of Down to Earth and the opportunity to have them signed and personalized by Julia!
Please note the schedule for this event:
5:00pm - Doors open. Early guests may meet and greet with Julia and have their books signed at this time.
5:30pm - Talk begins.
6:30pm - Talk ends. Additional opportunity for book signing.
7:00pm - Event ends.
Entrance to the shop requires one step up. Please contact us at hello@bindingagentsphilly.com with any questions or accessibility needs; we'd be happy to help.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Frankie doesn’t quite know what to make of Paige, who’s just moved from Brooklyn to her quiet Upstate New York hometown with all the pressed-clothes polish of a city girl. Paige, with her eight-year-old son in tow, is seeking refuge from a rocky relationship and is equally thrown by Frankie: Why can’t she stop thinking about this eternally single, charming, gay vegetable farmer? And could the attraction she’s feeling grow into something more?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a twice-weekly newsletter, teaches online cooking classes, farms part-time at Long Season Farm, and is a competitive powerlifter. The Washington Post called her latest cookbook, What Goes with What, “absolutely genius.” Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse Grace and their many pets.
ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the nationally bestselling author of two books of fiction — Fat Swim and Housemates, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize — and the nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl, a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice.
Tue, Jul 21, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Binding Agents: A Cook/Book Shop
908 Christian Street
Binding Agents is Philly's bookshop for cooks and eaters. Located in South Philly’s culinary epicenter, the 9th Street Italian Market, we’re your go-to source for new cookbooks and food-focused reads, plus gifts and goods for making, serving and enjoying. We’re independent, women-owned, fun & funky. Learn more at bindingagentsphilly.com.
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