Smitten Kitchen

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Smitten Kitchen
Type of site
Blog
Available inEnglish
Created byDeb Perelman
EditorDeb Perelman
URL smittenkitchen.com
Launched2006;17 years ago (2006)

Smitten Kitchen [1] is a blog for home cooks created and maintained by Deb Perelman. Perelman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Washington University, [2] where she studied psychology and art therapy. [3] She originally started writing online in 2003 while also working as an art therapist, and she eventually began the Smitten Kitchen blog in 2006. [4] [5]

According to Perelman, in November 2012 Google Analytics reported that her blog had 6 million unique views and almost 10 million page views. [5] She has also been featured on numerous websites, [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] NPR, [12] and The Martha Stewart Show. [13] In 2012, Smitten Kitchen won the Bloggie for best food weblog. [14]

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook was published in 2012 and came out at No. 2 on The New York Times's best-seller list for hardcover advice and miscellaneous. [15] Perelman's second cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites, was published in 2017. [16] She published her third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files, in 2022. [17]

Perelman lives in New York City with her husband Alex. They have two children, Jacob and Anna. [18]

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  16. ↑ Perelman, Deb (2017). Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites. Knopf. ISBN   978-1101874813.
  17. ↑ "Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files by Deb Perelman". Publishers Weekly . November 2, 2022. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
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