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]

Smitten Kitchen
Type of site
Blog
Available inEnglish
Created byDeb Perelman
EditorDeb Perelman
URLsmittenkitchen.com
Launched2006; 18 years ago (2006)

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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  1. ^ "smitten kitchen". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Jewish Woman magazine chats with Deb Perelman about her new cookbook and acclaimed cooking blog". Jewish Woman Magazine. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Out of GW and into the blogging world". The GW Hatchet. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Deb Perelman's Tiny Smitten Kitchen Rental". The Kitchn. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b Andrade, Fritzie (December 12, 2012). "A Cooking Blog Yields a Franchise and a Husband". The New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  6. ^ "The 50 Best food websites". The Independent. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  7. ^ nzle (28 June 2012). "Pearls of Wisdom: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen". Food52. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  8. ^ http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/2011-SAVEUR-Best-Food-Blog-Awards-Winners (winning best cooking blog in 2011
  9. ^ Jezebel (22 June 2012). "The Jezebel 25: Kick-Ass and Amazing Women We Love". Jezebel. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Top 10 Lifestyle Websites For Women". Forbes. 23 June 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Great tastes from a tiny kitchen - The Boston Globe". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  12. ^ "Interview: Deb Perelman, Author Of 'The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook' : NPR". NPR.org. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  13. ^ http://www.marthastewart.com/250172/martha-chats (at 4:55)
  14. ^ "Twelfth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2012 Bloggies". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  15. ^ Perelman, Deb (30 October 2012). The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Deb Perelman: 9780307595652: Amazon.com: Books. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 978-0307595652.
  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.
  18. ^ "About - smitten kitchen". 22 June 2006. Retrieved 30 September 2020.