Julia

Health has been my passion since I can remember. It infused and informed my love for cooking, gardening, teaching, and healing through nature and science.

I began cooking after living in Russia. Gardening when I lived in my first brownstone. And healing with food to cure my son's gut condition.

It all became formalized as I went to the French Culinary Institute and the Stanford University School of Public Health. Although I studied Russian & Soviet Studies at Harvard and then Columbia as a graduate student, it became clear once I began to have children that I wanted to devote myself to renewing and revitalizing the body.

Food played such a big role for me in finding true vitality. I believe what you learn, you have to pass on. Jolie is the manifestation of a desire to help you heal yourself — to make it easy, to save you time, to give you a new normal of feeling fabulous.

Welcome to jolie — the beautiful life.