Hi cutie, I'm Julie!
Consider me your fun-loving, healthy eating BFF. I'm a trained chef, healthy cooking coach, creator of literally thousands of recipes + you may have even seen me on TV! Did I mention I also happen to be the girl who loves to turn the everyday into a party?!
“Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it’s the amount of time she spent in the kitchen.”

As a little girl, I jumped at the chance to experiment and try new dishes. I’d even get impromptu cooking lessons from all the neighborhood grandmas.
In fact, the first recipe I ever wrote was for my own grandma’s infamous Rhubarb Crunch…to make it taste better to my 8-year-old self!
You could say I was always obsessed with food, flavors, and cooking – so much so that I ditched a lucrative tech career to pursue cooking professionally and dove head-first into the world of food! Like, surrounded by it. All day.
But what’s a health-conscious, yet food and fun-loving girl to do?
I’m pretty convinced that because of that, I’ve learned when it comes to creating healthy habits that LAST? It needs to be fun. And that we ALL deserve healthy food that tastes amazing and makes us happy.
Life’s too short for boring, bland, bunny food.
Life is a party, and sometimes I think that’s easy for us to forget. We all want to be happy, right? But we get so bogged down in the daily grind and society’s silly expectations, that we often forget to actually enjoy the daily moments.
The people, media and society in general make us think that we have to spend our days eating celery sticks and doing grueling ironmans to live a healthy and beautiful life.
OH HECK NO. Here? We’re all about building healthy habits that last – in the kitchen and in our lives – that make us truly feel balanced and whole. Because what we choose to cook and eat is just the beginning.
If you’re here, it means you’re tired of following trendy fads and restrictive diets. You’re ready to ditch the unrealistic expectations, enjoy your life, and ultimately?
You’re ready to achieve that balance that you’ve been craving (pun intended) for so long.
Buckle up, because you’re going to get all my secrets, tips & tricks to not only make day to day cooking easier and more fun but also to achieve that oh so elusive happy meets healthy lifestyle.
Of COURSE we’ll talk about food and making healthy eating delicious. BUT, we’ll also talk about your mindset, your habits and finding your joy. (Seriously, what’s life without joy?!)
My joy? Helping you enjoy all the good things in life in a healthy way. Because honestly?
You deserve it! And I’m so happy to have you here!

Julie Hartigan is an NYC based mom of 2 and former engineer/tech consultant who, driven by her great passion for cooking, graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education in NYC in 2009. Since then, she has been a personal chef, healthy cooking instructor, worked at Food Network and in cooking magazine test kitchens.
Julie has published thousands of recipes and tips for everyone from Weight Watchers, Shape Magazine, Bed Bath Beyond, Beach Body Fitness, Real Simple, and more and is also a regular on morning & lifestyle shows.
The founder of Julie Hartigan Brand Consulting and Cooking w/Julie, Julie’s coaching and healthy cooking programs have helped 1000’s of women achieve a happy-meets-healthy balance in their lives.
Get More Great Tips & Recipes on Instagram @JulieHartigan
Girlfriend! You deserve a POSH, PAMPERING, FUN-FILLED trip to look forward to! ❤️ ✈️ Swipe for peeks at what you could be doing this June…
Join me for a once-in-a-lifetime, small group, Chef Julie led Women’s Tour through beautiful Florence & the Tuscan countryside! 🇮🇹❤️
You’ll enjoy authentic, insider-only experiences like:
🍷 exclusive winery visits & tastings w women winemakers including a celebratory bubbly sabering
😍 fun foodie tastings like pasta making classes, street food tours, Michelin starred dining, farm to table picnics in the countryside, olive oil tastings & fresh cheese making
🥰 pampering 4⭐️hotels, spas, massages, yoga, visits to thermal baths, sunset floats down the Arno, time to unwind by the posh pool
🤩 soak in the MAGIC & BEAUTY of this romantic region of Italy including sunsets overlooking the Duomo, up close peeks at infamous frescoes, women’s artisan visits, strolls through charming medieval hill towns & time in the countryside
👯♀️ epic leather, jewelry & clothes shopping, laughter & lots of girlfriends time!
Come solo or grab a friend (or your mom, sister or daughter!) to join a safe, supportive, fun loving group of women for the trip of a lifetime. ✈️
EVERYTHING is done for you! Just show up & ENJOY 🥳
Don’t wait! My last 2 groups filled up quickly - just DM me for details or go to JulieHartigan.com/travel
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Join my Women’s Tour to TUSCANY or SICILY 🇮🇹 so you’ll have a dreamy, smile-making trip to look forward to too ❤️
NEW GROUPS FOR JUNE 2024 NOW OPEN! 🥳
DM me or comment YES & I’ll send you the info or go to JulieHartigan.com/travel ✈️
These pampering, chef-Julie-led, food & wine focused, women-supporting-women, small group trips are perfect for solo women travelers to have a fun group to see the world with, mother daughter duos, & girlfriends reunions! Everything is done for you - just show up & ENJOY! ❤️ Julie
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Girlfriend! ❤️ Have you always dreamed of a POSH sun & fun filled trip to BEAUTIFUL SICILY? 😎
Join me & fellow fun-loving ladies for a small-group, chef Julie led tour in June 2024! ✈️
Just a few of the magical moments you’ll enjoy:
🌊 visit 7 coastal & countryside towns + Mt Etna
🍷 tour & taste at incredible women led wineries @giuliamonteleone___ @ariannaocchipinti
😍 stay at pampering 4 ⭐️hotels w panoramic pools & views of the sea from all rooms, posh garden filled, women led resorts, & historic mansions
🪴do farm to table cooking classes
🤩 explore incredible baroque towns
🚤 a private boat tour of the Bay of Isola Bella, grottos & coral caves w a sunset dinner just for us
🐮visit a farm to make fresh bufala mozzarella
🥳 Siracusa street food tours & market visits
🍫chocolate & cannoli making including a visit w the oldest chocolatier in Sicily
🥰 massages, women artisans, shopping & sooo much more
Come solo or grab a girlfriend or loved one!
Either way you’ll be part of a safe supportive FUN LOVING group of women for the done-for-you SICILY TRIP of a lifetime!
DM or link in bio for details ✈️ or go to JulieHartigan.com/Travel
A few of the amazing places you’ll stay at & visit! @baglio_occhipinti @hotelpanoramictaormina @itriapalacehotel_ibla @algilaortigiacharmehotel
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GIRLFRIEND! You deserve a DREAMY trip to look forward to! ❤️ @juliehartigan #italyvacation #womenstravel #sicily🇮🇹 #tuscany #italytrip #italytravel #italy_vacations #sicily #sicilyfood #florenceitaly #sicilytravel ...
Love 🍕& trying new things? Put @cutsandslicesnyc on your list! 🔥#cheflife🔪 #pizzalover #brooklyn #nytimesfood ...
🌴 BAKED BRIE w SPICY MANGO HONEY-RUM TOPPING 🌴is a no-fuss, tropical inspired sweet-spicy app or dessert everyone will ❤️ NEW recipe for my friends @iloveimportedcheese #cheeselovers #importedcheese #bakedbrie #brie #rum ...
🥳 Drop a YES if Italy 🇮🇹 is on your travel list! Join me in SICILY or TUSCANY June 2024 ✈️ Spots opening soon! ❤️ Julie #womenstravel #italytravel #pastalover ...
@juliehartigan Still 2 weekends left this summer! 🍹set up a SPRITZ BAR for easy-fun hosting 🥳 learn how-to in my free mini book “La Dolce Vita at Home” at the link in my bio or comment YES & I’ll send it to you - cheers! ❤️ Julie - so much fun hosting a Summer Spritz event w my friends @hobokencheesewine this summer too! #aperolspritz #spritztime #spritz #labordayweekend #laborday #ldw #njshore #njshorelife #jerseyshore ...
Top Travel Planning Tips! 🔥 What authentic Italian dish would you ❤️ to learn to make? 🇮🇹 Thank you @scuoladicucina_siena & Lella for a wonderful time! #italytravel #womenstravel #freshpasta #cookingclasses ...
@juliehartigan Time flies…make the most of it girlfriend! 😎 Need a dreamy trip to look forward to? Get on the list for one of my upcoming Women’s Food & Wine Tours! DM or comment YES & I’ll send you info ❤️ xo Julie
#womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #emptynest #midlifewomen #womenstravel #solowomentravel #italytravel #womentravel #emptynesters #emptynester #emptynesterlife ...
The video shoot 🎥 that made me weepy! 🥲 @juliehartigan
So thankful to get to share my late Grandma’s Pasta Fagioli 🇮🇹 recipe in the upcoming @lesdamesny cookbook! ❤️
Honoring her & having her iconic comfort food recipe published & on video means so much! 🥰 And she’d be so excited to know I’m now a chef hosting Women’s Tours to Italy too! ✈️
As a proud member of the Women Supporting Women international food-beverage-hospitality organization “Les Dames D’Escoffier” I’m sure Grandma feels proud too. @lesdamesintl @lesda_mesdescoffiertuscany
#cheflife #italiangirl🇮🇹 #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #pastarecipe #pastafagioli #tuscanylovers #italytravel #womenstravel #lesdamesdescoffier #jceats #jerseygirl #hoboken #jerseycity ...
Join us Thurs 7/27 at 7pm! 🥳 @juliehartigan @localbarre @hobokencheesewine ❤️ @thehobokengirl #hobokennj #hobokeneats #hobokenlife #hobokengirl ...
Question for ya girlfriend! How often do you stop to CELEBRATE YOURSELF? 🎉
Um, heck YES you deserve it! ❤️
Last month 15 lovely women (including 3 sweet Mother-Daughter duos!) joined me in Italy on my Women's Tuscany Tour to do just that! ✈️
👯♀️ We laughed, dined, spa-ed, sipped, bonded, shopped, sabered champagne, partied with badass Italian women chefs/winemakers/& artisans...
& most importantly? Took time to relax, cut loose, celebrate life & ourselves! 💃
💐Listen - we women do SO much for SO many...
...that's why it's such a pure JOY for me to create & host my chef-led, Women Supporting Women - Food & Wine trips.
Can't wait to host my next SOLD OUT group in October & pamper the heck out of them too! 🥰
Want to learn more about upcoming trips? 🙋♀️
⚡️DM me or comment below! ⚡️
🤩 I'll get ya on the VIP waitlist for my next adventures to Tuscany, SICILY, the Loire Valley France, & Ecuador/Galapagos!
😘 Special thanks to @ilfalcionere Michelin Starred @silviabaracchi & the amazing @annamariacoli for making our final celebration dinner SO special!
& to @palazzo_castri1874 for hosting our kickoff dinner in your beautiful garden & making our stay so pampering
& to the incredible Eva @yourdreampict for capturing these moments so beautifully!
More trip moments to come soon!
#womensupportingwomen #womenstravel #solotravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #foodandwine #tuscanytour #sicily🇮🇹 #sicilytourism #florenceitaly #cortona #sicilytravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #cheflife🔪 #foodtravel ...
Question for you girlfriend? ❤️ When…or really WHY did we stop “going out to play”…
Our lives can feel so full of to-do’s & adulting!
You deserve to cut loose, kick back, & feel like a kid again sometimes too 🥳
🌎Explore a new place
💦Jump in a creek
💃🏻Dance to the block party band
🚲Hop on your bike
😆Belly laugh with friends
🍦Have an ice pop on the porch in the summer rain
😎Visit the local sunset spot
While I’m alllll for taking that Big Vacation ✈️ (I mean that’s why I’m creating & hosting superfun Women’s Travel Experiences!)
You don’t need to wait to inject some childlike wonder & fun into your everyday this summer too!
XO Julie
July 4th Weekend Photo Dump! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Join one of my Women’s Italy Trips 🇮🇹 so you can have this much fun too! ❤️ @juliehartigan DM for info ✈️ & share w travel-loving girlfriends
You can come solo or grab a friend - either way you’ll be part of a safe, supportive, fun-loving group of women for the Chef Julie Led trip of a lifetime! ❤️
We had such a blast in Tuscany in May & I can’t wait to host more groups of women to Tuscany, Sicily, & more locations soon! Go to JulieHartigan.com for more info on my Chef Led Women Supporting Women Travel Experiences ❤️
#womenstravel #solowomentravel #italyvacation #italyvacations #womentravel #italytour #italytours #sicilytour #tuscanytour #womenstour ...
LIVE 🇮🇹 from the top of the Duomo in Florence! 😍 follow me @juliehartigan for more insider travel tips & BTS of my chef led tour!
Hosting 15 lovelies on my Women’s Tuscany Tour & taking in the most beautiful views of this magical city! 💫✨💫
#womenstravel #cheflife #florence #italytravel #travel #travelblogger #travelbloggers #italy_vacations #italy #florenceitaly🇮🇹 ...
@juliehartigan ps: Girlfriends! still a few spots to join me in Tuscany in Oct! DM for info ❤️
#womenstravel #italyvacation #summertravel #girlstrip #italy🇮🇹 #hobokengirl #womensupportingwomen ...
🇫🇷🍷Bonjour from Tours! Hot tip 🔥add Loire Valley France to your travel bucket list ✈️
This historic river valley south west of Paris was once a playground for Kings, Queens & Popes so it’s filled w castles, chateaux, vineyards, markets, & adorable medieval towns like Tours. ❤️
I’ll be spending the week here w wine industry friends touring & tasting! Follow along our adventures here on IG @juliehartigan
PS: Ladies! I just *may* be scouting to add this gem as an itinerary for one of my upcoming Women’s Food-Wine-Culture tours! ✈️ more to come!
#womenstravel #francetourisme #foodandwine #loirevalley #girlstrip #travelblogger #traveladdict #francophile #winelover #travelblog ...
DM @juliehartigan or Comment for an invite to the Summer Spritz Party! 🥳🍹😎 Thurs 5/11 at 7:30 @hobokencheesewine
hoboken #hobokennj #hobokeneats #hobokengirl #hobokenlife #hobokenmoms ...
Stop putting off your travel ✈️ dreams & join me in Italy! @juliehartigan - DM - comment - tag a friend!!! ...