About Julia Bainbridge

Julia is an editor who has worked at Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Yahoo Food, and Atlanta Magazine, and a James Beard Award-nominated writer whose stories have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Food & Wine, among others. Her profile of chef Iliana Regan was named one of Longreads' best pieces of food writing in 2019 and Saveur magazine named an essay of hers one of the ten best food stories of 2016. She judged both the 2019 and 2020 Art of Eating Prize, served on the International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards Advisory Committee, and was the first-ever writer in residence at industry leader Food52.

Her book about nonalcoholic drinks, published by Ten Speed Press, is out now (and has been named one of the best cookbooks of 2020 by the Los Angeles Times and Wired and Esquire magazines). It’s called Good Drinks. She likes good drinks.

After building a career around why and how people gather, Julia pivoted into why people don't, launching The Lonely Hour podcast to explore social disconnection and other forms of loneliness in 2016. In the four years since, the show has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Women's Health, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, BBC, NPR, and more.