Hi, I'm Julie Morris and I'm a superfood chef and Cookbook author.
Superfoods
Author.
Superfoods are the most nutrient-dense benefit-rich foods found in nature.
They're the ones that give you the most nutritional bang for every caloric-buck that you're eating.
I was in college for Art and Design and then I started to develop all of the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome.
I decided to go out there and try and see if there was something I could do to heal myself, and I found
that through superfoods.
I started making my own superfood recipes at home, initially just for myself.
And, I had such great success with them that I realized I not only wanted to do this for myself for the
rest of my life, but I wanted to share it with other people as well.
When I first started getting into Superfoods, there was nothing out there in terms of what to do with
them in recipes.
All I could find was information on what made superfoods so incredible.
But, there really wasn't much instruction on what to actually do with these superfoods in the
kitchen.
I had to find that for myself.
It took me a really long time to write my first cookbook.
I started writing it probably about seven years before I actually started writing it.
[Laughing] I kept saying and thinking that I was going to write it, but it takes so much work and it's
very, very daunting.
When I actually decided "Now is my time.
Now, I really want to do this and I'm going to make this happen because it's not just going to happen on
its own," then it took me about a year.
But, I will say this: it took me a solid, solid year.
So, I worked on this every single day for as many hours as I possibly could and there were a lot of
sacrifices involved.
After I got rejected from all these other book publishers, I decided I still wanted to publish a book
and that's when I decided to self-publish my own book.
Now, it's not exactly a normal process to do this, but I decided to do absolutely everything myself.
I wrote all the recipes.
I did all the writing.
I took all the photographs.
I designed each and every page.
I picked out the fonts.
I picked out the paper.
Every single step along the way at my hands and my heart on it.
I feel like for that reason it stood out so much when publishers actually did get to pick it up and see it
in its full capacity.
For somebody that's looking to publish, I have two pieces of advice: The first is be authentic.
Find your own culinary voice.
Figure out what it is that excites you.
Don't just copy something that you see on Instagram.
Do it your own way and stick with it.
The second piece of advice is to go out there and don't quit.
Chances are there's going to be some people that don't like your work.
Chances are you're going to get some rejections along the way.
But, don't quit.
Believe in yourself.
Keep going down that path and eventually somebody will say "yes" and the sky's the limit from there.
I think the biggest way that I would define success is just being able to do what you love.
If you're able to do that on a daily basis and make a living at it
you're rich.
That's
rich.
That's it.
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