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Meet celebrated home cook, author and award-winning blogger, Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen. Learn to create the best Thanksgiving yet with a special cooking class. Deb will also be signing copies of her bestselling book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers . 6:00pm-6:30pm: Thanksgiving Cooking Class 6:30pm: Book Signing Begins

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Meet Beloved Social Media Star Deb Perelman, as we celebrate the launch of her new book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers . She will be signing copies of Smitten Kitchen Keepers , a collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again.

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Saturday, December 10 at 12:00pm ET

$39.50 per person (plus tax) includes a ticket to the book signing and a signed copy of Sundays with Sophie .

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Sheba Medical Center, recognized by Newsweek Magazine as one of the 10 Best Hospitals in the World for the second year in a row, is proud to be the largest and most comprehensive hospital in the entire Middle East. Born out of ingenuity and innovation in 1948, Sheba goes beyond the scope of treating patients by offering #HopeWithoutBoundaries and ground-breaking medical research.

General Admission: $35 (plus tax) includes a ticket to the book signing and a signed copy of Smitten Kitchen Keepers. Complementary Admission: Only includes admission to the event.

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• Red Roof Inn - Arlington
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• SpringHill Suites
• Towne Place
• Residence Inn
• Hilton Arlington
• Wingate Inn by Wyndham
• Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham

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• Howard Johnson Express

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Jeremie Abitbol • Yariv Ben-Ari • Gal Ben-Naim • Helene Boston Leeor Braude, Event Chair, LA • Melanie Bronfman, Event Chair, NY • Luisa Cannella Margarita Cittadini-Leinfelder • Gili Gibli • Diane Israel, Event Chair, Chicago Dr. Marine Joffe • Deborah Kaplan, Event Chair, Southwest • Tamar Kolumbus Caryn Linsey • Judy Lotwin • Sandra Mashaal Event Chair, Canada Gladys Mezrahi, Event Chair, Florida • Dr. Daryl Roitman • Rob Segal Lily Saad • Daniel Shahrabani • Stacy Shakiban Kerry Sher Herschowitz, Event Chair, South Africa • Carole Shnier Binnie Sommer • Glenn Stain

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Deb Perelman Could Do This Forever

The woman behind Smitten Kitchen avoids dinner burnout by cooking not for her kids but for her self .

When Deb Perelman and I sidle up to the counter of a bakery in New York City, she tells the cashier she just wants water. Already sweating in my puffer coat, wondering where we will sit, I panic when it is my turn to order. At a loss, I ask her what’s good, stammering about how we need to order a food item for the opening paragraph of my profile of her. Without blinking, Deb points to the chocolate rugelach and I ask for four. Deb then locates my mint tea for me and guides us outside to sit under the heat lamps, where she settles us. As someone who has read her blog and cooked her recipes for going on 15 years now, I realize that this is all I want, ever: to sit somewhere cozy with a carb in hand and have Deb Perelman tell me what to do.

Deb has been doing this for a lot of people for a long time, at least on the internet anyway. She hit publish on her first recipe in July 2006 and has since published an archive of recipes that must number into the thousands, not to mention three cookbooks, the first two of which spent a combined 19 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her latest, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics For Your Forever Files , gives us the best of what we've come to expect over the years, new-and-improved, but still accessible, versions of standard recipes that you'll want to add to your repertoire and then come back to again and again.

Deb knows that the internet is awash in recipes and viral food trends on social media and cooking sites you’ve never heard of that have perfected the SEO for “chicken with orzo," but Deb is the rare star of a different era of the internet who is still doing what she loves and what has made us love her: posting meticulously researched and tested recipes, charmingly written and photographed by her.

All of my friends want to know what Deb Perelman is like in person, and to each of them I relish reporting the same thing: She is just how you’d think. Totally normal. Funny, neurotic. Only an inch or two taller than me. (I am not tall.) “She would totally be our friend.”

For what it’s worth, Deb claims she would totally be our friend, too. “When I talk to people over the years, I'm like, ‘No, I actually think we could be good friends,’” she says. “I don’t see why we wouldn’t be. I understand we live in different places, we have different lives, but I’m sure that we draw each other, if that makes sense?”

She says the vibes are always very good when she goes on tour and that she feels very lucky. She describes her typical cookbook-signing audience as “just a bunch of people and their moms.”

I thought of this comment the next evening when I went to the first of many Smitten Kitchen Keepers events, where Deb would be in conversation with novelist and Brooklyn bookstore owner Emma Straub. It really was a bunch of people and their moms, lined up around the block in the subfreezing Brooklyn Heights night. I was laughing to myself and thinking that those of us who were attending solo would probably buy two copies and give the extra one to our mom for the holidays, when a pair of elderly women with deep Brooklyn accents walked by and asked us who we were lined up to see. Somebody told her.

“Who’s that?” she demanded. “Is she from the Food Network?”

“I mean how many times are you having a panic spiral when you’re making a recipe?”

No, she’s not from the Food Network. She’s from the internet . She is from our texts to friends (“Deb does it again”), our midday emails to our spouses (“We should make this”), and our inner monologue while we cook (“Deb says September is secretly the best month for summer produce”). She’s there in our flush of embarrassed pride at a dinner party, when somebody compliments our galette or our fritters, and we shrug humbly and say, “Smitten Kitchen,” by way of explaining how we have suddenly transformed into a domestic goddess.

“One of the things that I find comforting about you,” Straub tells Deb that night on stage, “is that whenever I need to cook anything... I can just go to Smitten Kitchen or go to one of your books, and I can find it there. You’re like, ‘Yes. Here’s the banana bread.’ And then you’re like, ‘Just kidding, I made it better.’ Which I think is so lovely. That it’s like, it is an archive. But it’s also a living organism, and I as a user, I feel like you are so present there. It feels like a community.”

I imagine I’m not the only person who learned how to cook via Smitten Kitchen. When I get to tell Deb this, after all these years, in person, I feel like I might cry into my chocolate rugelach. When I ask her about her approach to recipe-writing, it becomes clear that this is no coincidence.

“I think that you should be able to make a recipe and it should come out exactly like the picture, and it should work for you the first time, even if you have very limited cooking knowledge.” And if not? “Then the recipe didn’t do a good job.”

She understands it’s a high hurdle, but that’s also the point. It’s her job, as she puts it, to “take the static out of a recipe” — to anticipate any little thing that might cause us a problem and call it out. After all, she has been around long enough to know that the last thing the internet needs is another mediocre recipe.

When Smitten Kitchen the blog first launched, it was chattier and more offhanded, full of funny commentary and Flickr links. There from the beginning though, was Perelman’s distinctive voice, developed by her preceding blog The Smitten , a Sex and the City -era accounting of online dating and then planning her wedding to her husband, Alex, whom she met through the blog.

Now married with two kids, Perelman still works from the tiny home kitchen in her Manhattan apartment. And while she maintains the curiosity and openness of the amateur, she marries it with the rigor of an obsessive. She tells me that as the site has gotten bigger over the years, she has “doubled and tripled and even quadrupled down” on how picky she is about posting a recipe and getting it right.

On Instagram, Smitten Kitchen has 1.6 million followers , and these days I’m more likely to find her new recipes from her newsletter than Google Reader. Yes, she still moderates her own comments section. No, she has not learned how to delegate. Productivity might be down, she says, but she has gained a clarity of focus. “I think kids can do that, they force you to do time management better,” she explains.

Perelman’s kids are 7 and 13. After much debate, she and her husband decided the kids would stop by the event tonight, just to say hi. They will be coming from school and then Hebrew school, and she tries to limit the chances for them to be publicly scrutinized. “I just feel like when they were little ducklings, I could cart [them] around and put their faces up, but I just feel like now they’re people and it’s a long day,” she says.

I ask her if her kids get what she does for a living, or know how successful she is. Her son is 13. “He’ll be like, ‘My teacher likes your recipes.’” Her daughter, 7, can’t wrap her head around the whole thing yet, but Perelman thinks that’s a good thing. “She shouldn’t have to,” she says. “I mean, I can’t wrap my head around it, and I’m 46!”

“I think we get burned out when we’re trying to serve people who are unhappy tyrants.”

I think to myself how lucky they are, to have Smitten Kitchen for a mom! A woman who never lost touch with her desire or curiosity! Whose kitchen is always producing the most delicious food.

“Your daughter, though,” I ask. “She must love your food?”

“No, she hates my cooking,” she deadpans. “I have a kid. Are you kidding? She hates food. She thinks I’m actually a terrible cook, and she finds this whole thing very baffling.”

I ask her if she was ever tempted to make her work more kid-centric, especially after she became a mother. “I think definitely people wanted that,” she says, “and I think I’ve resisted it in part ’cause I didn’t want to feel pigeonholed. And I also am not sure I wish to cook for them.”

I laugh. That word: wish!

“Just hear me out,” she says, as if I wouldn’t. “What if we cooked for us? And I don’t mean in a Mommy wanted sausage tonight and that’s all you get for dinner. Hope you’re hungry, kids way. I just mean that kids are really picky and they have their own opinions about food. And believe me, I hear it, I absorb it. It’s in my head every time I make a choice about food. But I could just make everything that they say they want and they would still not eat it. And then I would be very sick of cooking, very quickly. I think we get burned out when we’re trying to serve people who are unhappy tyrants.”

Deb tells me she hears from a lot of people who stopped cooking after they had kids, because it just wasn’t fun anymore, serving said tyrants. She says it bums her out.

It bums me out, too, living it, with a few notable aberrations. One of those aberrations, I’m delighted to tell her, is the recipe I just made from Keepers : charred salt and vinegar cabbage. My 8-year-old son said to tell her it was amazing. Miraculously, he devoured it. “And you were right,” I said. “I thought it was going to burn—”

“Because what if somebody doesn’t tell you that?” she says, energized. (The headnote on the recipe reads: “It’s going to seem too charred, too vinegary, too vegetal when you first pull it from the oven, but the pan will not make it to the table intact.” Correct.)

“I mean how many times are you having a panic spiral when you’re making a recipe?” she asks. “Because you didn’t know that the dough was supposed to stick to the counter or if the cabbage was going to seem like it was burning?”

This is why we trust her. I know that Perelman has tested and retested every recipe she posts, and that, after all these years, she still has us in her mind as she walks us through the steps. “Whatever voice is living inside me is not one who thinks that I am actually very much better at cooking than other people,” she tells me. “I’m just more obsessive and I have more time, since I’ve been allowed to make this a career.”

And that is my relationship to her as a reader, that is our contract: Deb makes the cake 10 times over and explains it to me in such a way that I, a humble mom who has one shot at cooking her kid’s birthday cake, can pull it off on the first try. And in exchange for her skill and wisdom and good taste, I put my eyeballs on her website, share her recipes with all my loved ones, and am first in line to buy her cookbooks (plus a copy for my mom).

And that trust and loyalty is what separates Smitten Kitchen from so much so-called “food content.” I don’t come to Deb Perelman for lifestyle tips — there is no Deb home tour, or Deb serving ware, or Deb-core aesthetic — I come to her when I need to cook something wonderful and eat it in my real life. I come to Deb to experience the satisfaction of pulling something off — because with her, whether what she’s making is difficult or simple, random or iconic, it’s about the thrill of getting it right, and helping other people get it right, too.

“And it’s not like my way is right and your way is wrong,” she explains. “The right way is the way that works for you, but I’m going to share the thing that worked for me, that I thought was really cool.”

The next night, onstage with Straub, she tells the audience she could do this forever, that there are still so many recipes she wants to perfect. She still does get really excited when something works.

And I believe her, because I feel the same way.

You can order Smitten Kitchen Keepers and keep up with Deb’s book tour on her website .

This article was originally published on Dec. 6, 2022

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Smitten Kitchen Keepers

New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook

By Deb Perelman

Category: american regional cuisine | cooking methods | baking & desserts.

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About Smitten Kitchen Keepers

• a full-crunch cucumber salad you’ll want to make over and over again for lunch
• a tomato and corn cobbler that tastes like summer sunshine
• an epic deep-dish broccoli cheddar quiche that even quiche skeptics love
• a slow-roasted chicken on a bed of unapologetically schmaltzy croutons
• a butterscotched apple crisp that will ruin you for all others
• perfect spaghetti and meatballs, better than ever
• Deb’s ultimate pound cake, one to redeem all the sleepy ones you’ve eaten over the years

Also by Deb Perelman

About Deb Perelman

DEB PERELMAN is a self-taught home cook and photographer and the creator of the award-winning blog, SmittenKitchen.com. She lives in New York City with her husband and their children. DEB PERELMAN is available for select speaking engagements. To inquire about a… More about Deb Perelman

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NAMED AMAZON’S BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Deb Perelman has gained a devoted following with her blog, Smitten Kitchen, where she shares rigorously tested recipes written with warmth and wit. For her third book, Perelman collects 100 “keepers,” recipes that are guaranteed to be hits whether you’re making it the first or 50th time—recipes like slow-roasted chicken on schmaltzy croutons, perfect spaghetti and meatballs and chocolate peanut butter cup cookies.” – Forbes’ Vetted (The Best Cookbooks Publishing in 2022) “In an industry that often hypes what’s new, it’s refreshing to see equal attention paid to the familiar. If there’s one person to rely on for tried-and-tested recipes, it’s Deb Perelman, who has been running her blog, Smitten Kitchen, for 16 years. The essence of her latest cookbook is about repetition—recipes that she’s made time and time again, each time with a new improvement, so that they may make their way into your forever files. This collection features those almost-perfect dishes, peppered with Perelman’s inviting energy.” –Jessica Sulima, Thrillist “For her third cookbook, Perelman has taken the wisdom she has accumulated in the 16 years since she created Smitten Kitchen and funneled it into “keepers,” i.e., recipes deserving of a place in her “forever files” and yours. That means, for example, a towering broccoli cheddar quiche baked in a springform pan, deli pickle potato salad that makes smart use of both pickles and brine, and chocolate peanut butter cup cookies that I can personally attest merit the “keeper” designation. Perelman, as is her wont, employs her trademark warmth and humor as she shepherds you from breakfast to dessert and beyond, making this both a fun and practical read.” –Rebecca Flint Marx, Eater “Recipes become regulars when they’re fast, reliable, and deliciously worth the effort. In her third book, Smitten Kitchen founder Deb Perelman offers 100 recipes for oft-requested favorites like a fuss-free lemon poppy seed cake and “an epic quiche” sure to become some of the last you’ll ever need to learn.” –Jacqueline Raposo, Epicurious “Keeper recipes should bring chefs joy, writes Smitten Kitchen blogger Perelman ( Smitten Kitchen Everyday ) in this fuss-free collection that aims to make “food more reliably delicious.” Those on offer here cover a range of options, from weeknight fare to more elaborate offerings, and easily earn their place in home cooks’ “forever” files. Salad options pack some surprises, as in a deli pickle potato salad that can be kept in the fridge for up to four days. Filling, meat-centric dinners include cabbage and kielbasa with rye croutons, roasted lemon chicken wings, and turkey meatloaf, which is topped off with a glaze of ketchup, molasses, apple cider vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce. Perelman excels at tricking out vegetables to create such appetizing dishes as charred salt and vinegar cabbage with butter and garlic, and a spiced winter squash soup with red onion crisp. The desserts are standouts, among them brownielike chocolate peanut butter cup cookies, thick molasses spice cookies, brown butter carrot cake, and crumb pie bars…Perelman’s mastery of culinary magic is evident on every page, and the recipes are clearly the work of someone who knows what she is doing in the kitchen. Practical and versatile, this is a boon to home cooks.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Every cookbook creator makes a dish again and again so that we don’t have to, and Perelman ( Smitten Kitchen Every Day, 2017) just seems to have more fun doing so. With us strangers in mind…she shares recipes that withstand the most important test: folks will actually want to make and eat them over and over. For breakfast, a bodega-style fried-egg sandwich can be yours in three minutes, and a salad-topped frittata cooks entirely in the oven. Vegetables get their own chapters, organized by size…Meat dishes are balanced and homey, like a skillet-chicken parmesan that promises crispiness and sauciness and fail-safe, 10-ingredient pulled pork. Repeat-worthy cookies and unfussy cakes fill out the sweets chapter before Perelman invites readers to host more parties with a tight edit of crowd-pleasing drinks (alcoholic and non) and snacks. There’s a reason readers are still smitten, and this ode to “Weeknight Greatness” confirms it.” –Annie Bostrom, Booklist ( starred review) “In her third cookbook, Perelman returns with a gathering of the best versions of her key dishes—recipes that she has tested, trialed, and tweaked until they became what she wants her kids and readers to learn by heart and cook with delight…The book is a joy to read, with Perelman’s confiding, cheering voice showcased in short prefaces and recipe notes. She writes as if she were dashing off a recipe on a napkin for her best friend, while at the same time telling them what to do to really make it work. It is pure pleasure. The book covers breakfasts (which Perelman says are good at any time of day), salads, soups, vegetables, meats, sweets, and even a few drinks. Vegetarians and gluten-free eaters will find plenty of options and can adapt many of the other recipes…Essential for all collections. The cookbook, like the recipes it shares, is a keeper.” –Neal Wyatt, Library Journal (starred review) “Given Perelman’s dedication to recipe testing and her fuss-free mentality, it’s no surprise that many consider her latest book her best. Perelman has also solidified herself as the ultimate “keeper” with Smitten Kitchen Keepers.” –Georgia Johnson,  Good Times Praise for Deb Perelman and Smitten Kitchen “Smitten Kitchen is not just a food blog: it is the food blog.” — The New Yorker   “This is the kind of book you could easily cook out of for a month straight without tiring of it . . . And really, that’s the Smitten Kitchen magic: recipes that are ingeniously creative but so accessible that they leave you thinking, ‘Why the hell didn’t I think of that?’” — Eater   “No one delivers recipes inspired by equal parts curiosity and appetite quite like Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman.” — Epicurious   “A tremendously appealing collection of recipes whose headnotes strike chord after rousing chord.”  — Food52   “A joy to read . . . Prepare to be seduced.” — Los Angeles Times

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From the bestselling cookbook author and one of the internet’s most successful food bloggers, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files is a collection of essential recipes for meals you’ll want to prepare again and again.

For Deb Perelman, keepers are fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come—like a slow-roasted chicken on a bed of unapologetically schmaltzy croutons, a tomato and corn cobbler that tastes like summer sunshine, and an epic deep-dish broccoli cheddar quiche that even quiche skeptics will love. The 100 recipes in Smitten Kitchen Keepers aim to make shopping easier, preparation more practical and enjoyable, and food more reliably delicious for the home cook.

Perelman is the creator of Smitten Kitchen, a homegrown brand with more than a million Instagram followers, and a self-taught cook with a tiny kitchen. She obsessively tests her recipes to make sure that no bowls are wasted and that the results are always worth the effort.

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cauliflower salad with dates and pistachios

a clean-out-the-fridge salad

I spend a possibly unhealthy amount of time … oh you thought I was going to say scrolling TikTok and watching other people clean their apartments? I mean, yes, that too. But I was going to say debating whether one *needs* a recipe for something I like to make, such as a salad. Doesn’t everyone just grab random things that need to be used up and assemble them with a dressing? Yet my other favorite thing on social media is when something appears in my feed that I didn’t know I was craving and I spontaneously must stop what I’m doing and kick all of my existing cooking plans to the curb to make it. What if this is the one that provides this for you?

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baked brie with garlic butter mushrooms

Welcome to the decadent meal I dream about every late December, when I want even simple foods to feel festive. Yes, I am seriously making the argument that baked brie should be a dinner dish. Or, if not dinner, maybe a luxe part of it, so perfect for this blustery, celebratory time of year. For dinner you might eat this with a big green salad and a cup of soup. You might set this out as a side dish with a big roast. You might put it out as part of a party spread too, an oasis of savory among all of the cookies and molten cakes.

green angel hair with garlic butter + smitten kitchen keepers is here!

Today my third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers , comes out and thank goodness, because it’s been impossibly hard to keep it from you this long .

It feels downright unfair that I figured out how to make the best molasses cookie — thick, tender, but also one-bowl, no hand-mixer required, the kind that makes your whole home smell like the holidays — and you’re only finding out about it today. My favorite pot roast is in there; sometimes I add rice shortly before it’s done for a truly one-pot meal-of-a-braise that feels perfect for this cold week. There’s a warm hoagie that’s practically a vegetarian cheesesteak. The most perfect chocolate chip cookie I could possibly dream up is there (it has salted walnut brittle inside). A deep dish, actual doorstop of a broccoli cheddar quiche that serves a crowd and an egg salad, just for us. The easiest three-layer chocolate party cake that could ever exist is filled with a salt-flecked milk chocolate buttercream and it’s designed to fit in the bottom of a shopping bag so you can take it everywhere with you. The actual craziest thing I’ve suggested you do with cabbage (salt, vinegar, and char it), might lead to the craziest thing you do with cabbage (eat it from the pan, standing up). There are cream cheese and jam challah buns that make me think of my dad and there’s a pound cake that I hope could be worth the cover price alone.

apple and cheddar crisp salad

This is an apple and cheddar salad and I would humbly argue an excellent one, the best I’ve ever made, but this recipe is also an excuse for me to share a few of the best tricks I keep up my sleeve (I always wanted to be a cook who said things like that, when what you might actually find is a lost piece of popcorn) to make the kinds of complex salads I can never resist on a cafe menu at home as simply as possible. Because we deserve to have fancy, cool, crunchy, dynamic, and gorgeous salads at home, even if we do not live a life that allows us to afford fancy salads made by others on a regular basis.

focaccia onion board

Welcome to the cutting room floor. Whenever I finish a cookbook, there are recipes that didn’t make the final book not because they’re flawed in any way, but because they weren’t necessary. Smitten Kitchen Keepers already has a couple great savory breads and sufficient caramelized onion magnificence, so I pulled this recipe out because I knew it would be perfect for the site, right now. Why? This week is the most significant Jewish holiday of the year, Yom Kippur, a day of atonement. It is traditional fast for the day, and the fast is traditionally broken with a dairy meal, quite often a giant spread of bagels and fixings. But that wasn’t the first time I made this. In March 2020, when the whole world shut down, so of course did all of the bagel shops in my neighborhood. I started making easy bagel-y breads so we could still enjoy our cream cheese and lox weekend fix. This one has a cool history, too.

apple dumplings

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, my first cookbook , turns 10 years old in a few weeks, and inside it is what I call one of the best summer desserts I’ve ever made, peach dumplings with bourbon hard sauce. These were a whim that occured to me one morning before dawn when my then-baby (and, as of 11 days ago, a Bar Mitzvah) woke up early and lacked interest in going back to sleep and my mind drifted, as it does, to things I’d like to cook.

turkey pesto meatballs and orecchiette

As long as we are a full six days before fall begins, I am allowed to sneak in one more zucchini recipe. It would be right there in my contract, had I one, above the expectation of ironed shoelaces and below that of a daily slice of chocolate biscuit cake. I’d actually intended this recipe for July (and the eggplant involtini for August). But July was so hot, and August wasn’t much better; I couldn’t bring myself to publish recipes that require oven time, so I waited for a better moment to arrive. Our patience has been rewarded; this brothy, late summer-y bowl of pasta and meatballs is absolutely perfect for right now, with the kind of sunny warm days that require a morning and evening cardigan — i.e. the very best weather on this earth, full stop.

eggplant involtini

It makes no sense at all, but for most of this past winter, I craved eggplant parmesan. I tried to tell myself that we were half a year to eggplant season and would I prefer some… cabbage or turnip parmesan instead? (I would not.) I made it a few times. I ordered it in a few others. I finally got it out of my system and then in the past month I’ve seen Reel after TikTok for eggplant involtini and the magical combination of silky eggplant, tomato sauce, and sharp, melty cheese’s hold over me has returned. At least this time my craving has seasonal compliance.

corn butter farro

A logical progression after making zucchini butter spaghetti a few times — provided you’re a person who likes zucchini, butter, and spaghetti, or what happens when the first two melt silkily against the third — is to ask yourself, what can I butter next ? What vegetable wants to be cooked down until it’s tender, concentrated, and almost buttery and then fused with actual butter to make something better than both things? My friend Alissa and I debated this a couple months ago, cycling through carrots, peas, and tomatoes* before landing on corn. Except it was more like oh my god: CORN!

grilled nectarines with gorgonzola and hazelnuts

Listen, I don’t make the rules. These things aren’t rational. But at some point over our vacation in Scotland — a time when we mostly consumed fish and chips, more chips, steak pie, also with chips, a detail that I’m sure is unrelated — I began intensely craving the combination of peaches and blue cheese even though I can’t think of a time when they’ve crossed paths in my kitchen. Once we got home, I beelined for Salad Freak by Jess Damuck [ Amazon , Bookshop , More Indies ], a cookbook that came out this spring, because I had a hunch she’d put the idea in my head and sure enough, she had a combination of stone fruit and blue cheese waiting to fulfill my wayward vacation craving.

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Deb Perelman in conversation with Matthew Felix

Smitten Kitchen Keepers Corte Madera Store + Live Online

Sat., January 21 2023 • 1:00pm PT

The long-awaited new book from the best-selling and beloved author of  The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook  and  Smitten Kitchen Every Day  — a collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chicken and Dumplings to Fettuccine with White Ragú, and from Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies to Strawberry Summer Stack Cake.

Deb Perelman is the author of two best-selling cookbooks; one of the internet's most successful food bloggers; the creator of a homegrown brand with more than a million Instagram followers; and the self-taught cook with the tiny kitchen who obsessively tests her recipes to make sure that no bowls are wasted and that the results are always worth the effort.

Here, in her third book,  Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files , Perelman gives us 100 recipes (including a few favorites from her site) that aim to make shopping easier, preparation more practical and enjoyable, and food more reliably delicious for the home cook.

What's a keeper? 

• a full-crunch cucumber salad you'll want to make over and over again for lunch
• a tomato and corn cobbler that tastes like summer sunshine
• an epic deep-dish broccoli cheddar quiche that even quiche skeptics love
• a slow-roasted chicken on a bed of unapologetically schmaltzy croutons
• a butterscotched apple crisp that will ruin you for all others
• perfect spaghetti and meatballs, better than ever
• Deb's ultimate pound cake, one to redeem all the sleepy ones you've eaten over the years

These are the fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come — from Perelman’s forever files to yours.

Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook and photographer and the creator of the award-winning blog SmittenKitchen.com. She lives in New York City with her husband and their children. 

Matthew Félix  is an author, podcaster, and speaker. On his Matthew Félix on Air and as Program Director and Host of the San Francisco Writers Conference podcast, he has interviewed  NY Times  bestselling authors, leaders of organizations such as LitQuake, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, and experts on topics ranging from cable cars to cannabis, refugees to honey bees, and acupuncture to astrotourism. Matthew also speaks regularly about creativity, podcasting, marketing for authors, and more.  Publishers Weekly’s  BookLife Prize called his debut novel,  A Voice Beyond Reason , “(a) highly crafted gem;” his travel collection,  With Open Arms , won numerous Solas Awards and has topped Amazon's Morocco category four times; and his latest book,  Porcelain Travels , won Gold for Humor in the Readers’ Favorite Awards, received two Soul-Making Keats Literary Awards, and was a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist.

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About the Author:

DEB PERELMAN is a self-taught home cook and photographer and the creator of the award-winning blog SmittenKitchen.com. She lives in New York City with her husband and their children.

About the Book:

A  BON APPETIT  BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The long-awaited new book from the best-selling and beloved author of  The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook  and  Smitten Kitchen Every Day —a collection of essential recipes for meals you’ll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chicken and Dumplings to Fettuccine with White Ragú, and from Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies to Strawberry Summer Stack Cake.

Deb Perelman is the author of two best-selling cookbooks; one of the internet’s most successful food bloggers; the creator of a homegrown brand with more than a million Instagram followers; and the self-taught cook with the tiny kitchen who obsessively tests her recipes to make sure that no bowls are wasted and that the results are always worth the effort.

Here, in her third book,  Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files , Perelman gives us 100 recipes (including a few favorites from her site) that aim to make shopping easier, preparation more practical and enjoyable, and food more reliably delicious for the home cook.

What’s a keeper?

• a full-crunch cucumber salad you’ll want to make over and over again for lunch
• a tomato and corn cobbler that tastes like summer sunshine
• an epic deep-dish broccoli cheddar quiche that even quiche skeptics love
• a slow-roasted chicken on a bed of unapologetically schmaltzy croutons
• a butterscotched apple crisp that will ruin you for all others
• perfect spaghetti and meatballs, better than ever
• Deb’s ultimate pound cake, one to redeem all the sleepy ones you’ve eaten over the years

These are the fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come—from Perelman’s forever files to yours.

• Deb Perelman

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smitten kitchen every day trailer + book tour!

In 47 days, Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant & Unfussy New Favorites , my second cookbook, the one it took me five years to write so I’m definitely not freaking out about any of this at all, nope nope nope, will be ready to meet the world. And today, I have four awesome things to share in advance of its big day.

Cookbook Trailer! We made a video to celebrate the book — right in the middle of my kitchen. Everyone had a job (even Jacob and Anna) and I hope it is as fun to watch as it was to make.

Custom Inscribed Books! While you can already pre-order your copy of the cookbook from pretty much any bookstore you love ( Amazon , Barnes & Noble and more ), you can now pre-order signed books too through The Strand , a beloved bookstore in my neighborhood. When you order, you’ll have option of requesting a word-for-word personalized inscription, you know, like:

• “Happy Birthday Dad! You can pick your cake from here.” • Or “If you do the dishes, I’ll make us the chicken soup on p. 112” [actually this is a text I just sent my husband] • Or something funnier, like the person last time that had me taunt her sister with “Deb just told me that I was her favorite and not you.” [Of course I did it. I, too, am a sister.]

I will inscribe these books before the release date so that they’ll still get to you on 10/24.

Pre-Order A Custom Inscribed Cookbook: Strand Books

A New UK Publication Date + Thank You Gift: The UK publisher of Smitten Kitchen Every Day is bringing forward their publication date to 7 December so that it is available before the holidays. To celebrate this, if you send them a screenshot of your UK pre-order confirmation (making sure to blank out any personal or payment details), they will send you a big thank you in the form of a printed recipe card for sweet treat that we couldn’t fit into the book. Just get in touch with them within the next two weeks (end date September 21) in one of the following ways: • Tweet them: @PegsSquare • Tag them in an Instagram post: @squarepegbooks • Email them: [email protected]

Pre-Order U.K. Edition: Amazon U.K. | Waterstone’s

A Book Tour! This week, this site turns 11 years ago. And while the over 270K (!) comments on nearly 1200 recipes will always be my favorite part of the site, do you know what’s even more fun? Hanging out in person. This fall, we’re going to have a lot of chances on THE SMITTEN KITCHEN EVERY DAY BOOK TOUR .

The image above will take you to the BOOK TOUR + EVENTS page with all the time and place details. We’ll be adding a few more cities and events to the lineup after Thanksgiving – Minneapolis, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta, Montreal, and another New York City event among them – so check back for additional details in the coming weeks. I hope we finally get a chance to meet.

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195 comments on smitten kitchen every day trailer + book tour!

Beautiful. I’m booking the day as a Vacation day to make sure I’m at the head of the line ❤❤

I’m so happy for you! I will see you in Boston, maybe with kids, one of whom was 6 months old when she met you during the last book tour…

Come to Saint Louis!!!

I agree. Come to St. Louis!!!

Yes, please! St. Louis needs you!

yes, please, st louis!!

Another request for St. Louis!

And another! LOVE Smitten Kitchen!

Yes, please!!!

Please! SK in the STL!

I’m not even from STL – and I agree. Bring the kids and go to the city museum. It’s the best place ever! My kids are still begging to go back!

Oooh! I love it and I want it! Congratulations! It is absolutely beautiful!

Hooray for two days in DC! Congrats in advance!

I’m so excited! I can’t wait to see the date for Denver (I’m just glad that it’s on the list). I’m definitely not missing it this time around! I’ve been on a kick of cooking recipes from the first book, maybe it was an unconscious warmup to the new book! (Not sure how I can add a few more exclamation points…)

Yes!! I’m excited you’re coming to Denver, too!

Denver … can’t wait for the date confirmation! Last time you toured Denver with your first cookbook, I believe it was February and we had a hellacious snowstorm and I couldn’t make the 60 mile drive to the city. Hmmm, perhaps this mean I can bring BOTH cookbooks for signing :) !!!

Agreed on Denver! Thanks for including us, looking forward to the date!

Denver!!! SO excited!

Love the video! Am trying to identify the cameos by the kids – little hand getting a piece of cake at the end –> Anna perhaps? But then where’s Jacob? Definitely saw the kid pics in the cookbook pages – so cute! Can’t wait to get the book. Congrats!

Please, please, please come to St. Louis!

Please come to San Diego!!!!!

Yes please to San Diego!!

Thirded this one!! You’ll love it here

Come to Phoenix!

I couldn’t agree more! Add Phoenix if you can – I promise you will want to move here for our winters alone! (Last year, we had Thanksgiving Dinner outside on my sister’s amazing patio, and it was fabulous!)

Or Tucson! Tucson works, too!

SO HAPPY ABOUT DENVER <3

SQUEEEE! I just dropped what I was doing and pre-ordered the book for the Austin book signing at BookPeople. I’m SO glad you’ll be touring in my neck of the woods.

We would love to have you in Phoenix!! Lots of sunshine and tacos here. ;)

Are you taking your book tour to London or anywhere else in europe?

Yes, definitely come to London again!

Please come to London!

At the risk of sounding like a brat, why does LA always get the step kid treatment with one event for such a huge city and SF gets 3 days worth of events!? 😱 But am very happy its on a Sunday at 2.. yayy 😬 See you soon! 👍🏻

If L.A. is the stepchild, Buffalo,NY must be the bastard. No one ever comes here.

Seriously. I’m in Syracuse and totally feel your pain. :)

Congratulations! I signed up for Boston – so excited about this book!

Can’t wait for that Atlanta date!!!!!

I second this!!

Yay, Atlanta!!

Just texted my bestie about your appearance in SF. Omnivore is the best!

Love the trailer! So clever and sweet. Please come to Charlotte or Raleigh!

Please please come to Charlotte or Raleigh or really anyplace in North Carolina! Would so love to meet you in person!!

Yes, I’d love to see you in Raleigh or Charlotte

fourth-ing this sentiment! NC would love to have you!

Yes! The event last time in Chapel Hill was fantastic. Would love a repeat!!

Yes!! Come to Raleigh!! Or Durham!! Or Chapel Hill!

Hooray! Ordering my signed copy right now! :D

Any chance you’ll be crossing the pond for part of your book tour? I’m in Germany but would happily make the trip to the U.K. to meet you!

So glad you’ll be coming to Denver!

Oh my GOSH, I can’t believe you aren’t coming near me!!! (crying). I WILL order a signed copy though and I can’t wait to gobble it all up – literally! Thanks so much for all things wonderful!

Congratulations on all your success! I’m so excited you’ll be coming to Minnesota!

Me too, on the Minnesota bandwagon. I missed the last tour, but will make a point of being there this time!

Wheee!! Congratulations on the new book! I can’t wait to *hopefully* meet you at a signing!!

Congrats, the book looks really lovely! Just promised myself I wouldn’t buy anymore cookbooks because a. The situation on bookshelves is getting out of hand and b. I use the internet duh. But need to make an exception for this! Also, please come on a european booktour, pretty please. I will be the crazy fangirl 1st row in holland, just so you know;-)

Yay! & Congratulations.

Come to Detroit!!! Already preordered and can’t wait!!!

Yes please! Detroit! Or Ann Arbor. Either would be great!

Agreed! Would love a Detroit stop!

Congratulations! So happy for you and your family, what an accomplishment! You will be touring Seattle in November and I won’t be here! Any chance you might add Arizona to the tour? Love the trailer!

Yay for the earlier U.K. release! But U.K. book tour? 😁 For the last release I was still in Southern Africa, which you just didn’t want to include in the tour for some bizzare reason. So U.K. has to happen (preferably before I go back south again).

My heart dropped at first when I saw the book tour lineup…and then I kept reading and saw that you WILL be coming to Denver!!! Can’t wait!!!

Me too! I was sad until I saw Denver on the list of TBD dates. Can’t wait to get my hands on that cookbook :)

Oh! Somehow I missed that?!? Thanks GOODNESS!!

Yes to Minneapolis!!!! Will be so thrilled to have you. {insert so many emojis}. I have my book pre-ordered and can’t wait to have it signed.

Seconding Minneapolis! Will be there!

I am selfishly sad that Pittsburgh is not on this list, but am already making road trip plans with other SK devotees! See you somewhere, Deb!

Come to Ireland, please?

Well I guess I know what the cookbook club choice for October will be! Standing invite while you’re in Chicago to join us :-)

Pre-ordered on Amazon awhile ago, can we bring to an event for signing? Congratulations!

Thank you! Each event has its own rules but there are no events that won’t let you bring your own copy bought elsewhere. Many stores were nice enough to waive their usual policies because of this. But do read the note on top of this page if you can; no purchase requirements but it’s definitely awesome if we can find other ways to support these stores (and these events).

I am pre-ordering now! You have never- literally, never- steered me wrong in a recipe. Please come to Charleston, SC!! We have awesome food we could feed you and would love to host you here!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELCOME TO AUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay! Congratulations, Deb!

Yay! Already registered to come see you in Boston! I’m bringing along my 11-year-old son – he’s a huge fan of your site and the first book. Thinking with this book he needs to start doing some of the cooking instead of just telling me which recipes he wants me to make!

Oh wow you’re coming to Santa Cruz!

Let us know if we can take you around, bring you anything, or recommend a beach!

Congratulations! You have done so much to get people to cook at home.

Really pleased the UK version is coming out earlier than planned! Such nice surprise!

SO excited you’re coming to Seattle!! Can’t wait!

Come to Memphis!

SSSSOOOOO happy for you Deb! Oh – and thank you!!!!

*phew* So excited to see you’re planning to hit up Denver later in the year! Looking forward to seeing your event when you do – and, as always, hoping it will be at the Tattered Cover. *fingers crossed*

Yay Dallas!!! 😀😀😀

please come to Milwaukee!

Yes! Milwaukee!! Lots of fans here!

Please please put a reminder up when you’ve added additional stops to your book tour (Minneapolis) so we know where in town you’ll be!

I live in beautiful Monterey_Carmel area and have loads of friends and family who adore your whimsical banter and we cook out of your book once a week for a potluck(the other days we hoard your delicious recipes for ourselves)!

It seems we are left out of every book tour(including Ina’s)! Just because we are not a metropolis, does that equate with not being incredibly enthusiastic about meeting you; rhetorical question. Is there any possible chance you could squeeze us in between S.F. and L.A.? There are quaint independent bookshops in Pacific Grove area, please check them out and consider, thanks Deb!

Monterey is beautiful! I would much rather make the longer drive from Sacramento to Monterey instead of San Francisco!

Yes, please come to Minneapolis!

Congratulations! I look forward eagerly for your new posts and have made many delicious recipes. Best of luck to you. Not only are you one talented cook, but such an excellent writer as well. Thank you for the many hours of pleasure your blog has given me. :) (just returned from a root canal…so I apologize in advance for typos and in-general terrible writing!)

Tickets for Boston event – check Pre-order from Brookline Booksmith – check How has it been 5 years? It seems like yesterday at Coolidge Corner – can you tell I’m just a wee bit excited? This makes me so very happy! Yay for SK!

Please come to Cleveland!?!?! Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Is it too much to ask for an Australian book tour date? ;P j/k (or maybe I’m not) Will SK Errr day be released in the land down under or should I schedule my order from abroad sometime soon? Thanks heaps!

I have been asking for years. I would love to go!

Yes, come to Australia! I know it seems like such a long way to travel but we’re totally worth it.. Honest! ;-)

I’m so happy to see that this is happening! I’m also glad that you’re coming to the Twin Cities after Thanksgiving. I say “Twin Cities” instead of “Minneapolis” because I have the perfect bookstore to recommend in St. Paul for your tour: Common Good Books. It’s such a great bookstore – just ask Al Franken and David Sedaris! They recently did book signings there. I have NO professional association with the store, but it’s such a great space. Garrison Keillor owns it and I’m sure he doesn’t need any extra money, but it’s my favorite bookstore in the entire TC.

So excited! Wish you were coming to charleston Sc.

I’m thrilled to meet you again, and of course for your lovely book! So glad the UK edition is coming out before Christmas too.

Quick question: can the UK version be signed?

Let me find out. I don’t think that the custom inscriptions could happen — I am not in the UK, of course, and cannot sign books locally — but perhaps there are other ways.

That would be great, thank you for looking into it! Either way, Christmas is planned. :-)

Have a great day!

Any chance you’ll add in a Wisconsin stop? Preferably Madison, but I’ll take Milwaukee!!! I’ll take you out for cheese curds and beer!

In person is always best!! Marking down those Seattle dates!!! (Supposed to be running a marathon in BC that weekend, but if my knee continues acting up, that might now be happening after all!)

Is it me or that a few recipes shown in the video are already in the blog? just wondering if the recipes in the book are mostly from the blog\new ones? Thanks :)

The book is 85 to 90% new recipes, not previously on the blog. I’m not sure there’s anything in the video already on the site, although some (powdery cookies, soup) might look familiar, they’re completely different recipes.

Can you add Cleveland to your tour? I’d love to meet you. And congratulations on this awesome milestone

This is so exciting! Also, can you try to come to London at some point again? (I was the one who came to your first stop on your last tour in Los Angeles when I lived out there, then your last one in London when I’d moved back last time around!)

Have you thought about coming to Detroit?

I’d love to!

Oh man…my friends and I are positively devastated not to see any UK dates. Come to England! We’ll feed you scones and cauliflower cheese! :)

Would love to! There’s definitely talk of another UK tour. I think if there’s enough interest, it will definitely happen. (I’d be thrilled, of course. Talk about the best job ever.)

Ohh I really hope there’s a UK tour. I’d book a ticket from Oslo in a heartbeat.

definitely lots of interest in the UK! if you can squeeze us in we’d love to have you!

I love to cook and do so often for family and friends. Most of the time when a dish I have made is complimented, my response is, ” Another great recipe from Smitten Kitchen!” I have loved your first cookbook and my daughter bought me this second one for my birthday – I can’t wait to have it in my hands, read it like a novel, and then invite some people over to try out the deliciousness that will come from within! Thanks, Deb!

So excited for this book!! Loved your first, and I’ve been cooking from the site since the beginning. Every recipe has been a winner and I’m so eager for more. And I cannot wait for the 92nd St Y appearance with David Lebovitz!! 🎉🎉🎉 Do I have to buy the book there? I can hold out . . . Maybe . . . 🤔

You don’t have to but they will be for sale from Kitchen Arts & Letters, an awesome cookbook-only store in the neighborhood. And thank you!

I loved the cookbook trailer!! Tell me please what is the bread/cake on the book tour ad! It looks wonderful and I want some!

It’s a version of brioche bostock but with smashed raspberries and hazelnuts.

I’ll see you in Los Angeles on November 19! I’m making corn chowder tonight regardless if it’s not weather appropriate.

Hi Deb, I see Arizona didn’t make the cut. Tucson has been designated USA’s only World City of Gastronomy by UNESCO. We would love to have you come here. I think my son-in-law, Randy, contacted you about coming to Tubac, 45 minutes south of Tucson. He and my daughter run a fabulous kitchen shop, Tumacookery, (named for a local mission, Tumacacori) and a fun relaxed cooking school, Cooking A-Z. They would love to host you. Also Tucson has a wonderful, independent, woman-run, solar operated bookstore, Antigone. You can google the school and the shops. I’m crossing my fingers here.

Thank you — I would love to go!

Another great Arizona option is the 6th annual Tucson Festival of Books, held on the University of Arizona mall. They always have a tent for cookbook authors to give presentations and demos. Next year the dates are March 10th and 11th, 2018. You could always go down to Tubac afterwards and present there. Fingers still crossed.

Plus one for Arizona–I’d totally go!!

Come to ATL!!!

So excited for this book! It looks amazing! Congratulations! Come back to CT- remember the cute little library you visited on your last tour? We’d love to see you again!

Come to Omaha!!!

So glad you’re coming to Toronto, but I wish it was downtown rather than the suburbs! And I was just at the Strand last month…was thinking of you when I was in NYC. :-) Looking forward to getting our hands on your new “baby.” Mazel Tov!

This is so exciting! I’ve followed your blog for years (I think 8 but can’t be sure) but never commented. I actually just made the recipe on your card sent out with the pre-order (albeit with pearl sugar instead of nonpareils) and am so very excited for the whole book to make its way to the door! Thank you so much for all that you do, you make such amazing recipes and having another book full of them on my shelf is an exciting prospect to say the least! I’ll see you in NYC =)

PLEASE come to San Diego. Can’t wait to get my hands on your new cookbook. I love you, your cookbook and your blog. I’ve been following you since the beginning.

Congratulations on your new book, it looks amazing.

Linda A aka “Flourgirl”

I am so excited about your book! So excited that I forgot to pre-order it and am bummed about missing the extra recipes. BUT ALAS, I will be buying at least one copy for myself.

Just want to say you’re awesome, and a Kansas City area book tour stop would be fantastic. :)

Are you going to come to UK – London ? Please do

I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the fact that the trailer video wasn’t soundtracked by happy, peppy little ukulele music. I’ve come to expect that from every food-related clip nowadays and the electric guitar was so COOL! Haha, these are the things I notice and appreciate… (you might not be surprised to hear I also care about things like lay-flat binding).

Can. Not. Wait. for the book!! <3

Congrats!!! Loved your first one can’t wait for the second, but please come to Montreal!!!!!!!!!!

because I can’t turn off my inner copy editor, “This week, this site turns 11 years ago” = old

Congratulations!

Hee hee, I love that hand sneaking a piece of cake at the very end of the video =)

Woohoo! Your Portland visit to Powell’s is on my calendar! Any other PDXers planning on going and interested in meeting up beforehand?

Alycia, Yes I’d love to meet up in the Pearl ahead of the signing! Maybe Clyde Common just a few blocks away? Any other Portland fan girls or boys want to join in?

Deb, is there any chance you could join a small group of us for a bite to eat and a beverage before the signing? Clyde Common has community table seating and happy hour 3-7p. Would love to buy you one of Jeffrey Morgenthalers Bourbon Renewals there!

SO very excited to experience your new cookbook and meet you Deb! I don’t comment much at all but read your blog religiously. Many many favorite recipes–when I try a new one my husband asks, is this another from “that Smitten woman” which sets the bar high that deliciousness is expected. SO EXCITED! Niki (email Nicole.abajo AT iCloud DOT com)

Thank you so much. I don’t usually know what my schedule is going to be until right before (publicists like to keep us authors very overbooked) but please keep me posted on the details as we get closer. Bourbon Renewals sound awesome.

Just emailed you! :)

Clearing my sched right now.

Such a wonderful trailer and book! Congratulations on the book!!!

Deb, since your favorite movie growing up was Annie, and since now you have a redheaded curly munchkin of your own, are you ever tempted to dress her up as such and teach her all the songs. This is an important issue.

Lol, we’re already on it !

Book is on order (long time!) and looking forward to its release! Love your recipes and blog. The Tomato Zuccini Gratin- oh my!, made the burst tomato galette lots of times last summer and always a hit. Looking forward to some real treats in the new cookbook. I’m NH so won’t be able to make any book tour stops. Good Luck!

Congrats!!! If you’re driving from Toronto to Chicago, you could stop in Ann Arbor on the way, or better yet, in the cute city next door called Ypsilanti (my town!) where you can get this bread pudding from an Ecuadorian bakery for $1.50/slab, and that slab will feed you for a day and you will wonder what magic dust they have in their kitchen. Just sayin.

Big congrats! My heart felt a little heavy for you when I saw the book tour dates and looked at how continuous it is over almost a month. As a mother of a young child, I wonder how it all feels, how it’s possible. Do you bring the little ones with you? Is this kind of nonstop tour required of authors and are there any supports for those with young children? How does it all work out without missing them like crazy? I’m genuinely wondering and sending lots of love.

Thank you — I don’t bring the kids with me (it sounds like fun but is more disruptive than it’s worth unless it’s a quick weekend trip, especially with school) and no, it’s not required at all. I sign off on everything. I really loved book touring last time; it was really cool to be able to see new towns and meet so many people, and wanted to do it again. My husband joins me on as much as he can, and my in-laws stay here with the kids (they like grandma more than us!). It’s definitely a bummer to miss out while I’m away, but it’s just six weeks and I wouldn’t trade it.

I’ve had my copy on pre-order for months!

Please think about coming to Sydney, Australia, on your tour- would be amazing to see you here!

Already ordered. Can’t wait to read through and cook from it.

Come to Europe please :)

Detroit!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!! I am in other cities and missing you… Phoenix!!!!! Comet ther in January.. PLEASE

YAY! I’m setting myself a reminder to check this page after Thanksgiving for Minneapolis event deets.

Yay! Can’t wait til you come to Marin! Let’s go to the best restaurant in town after the book talk for dinner. (Just a thought. In the event you’d like to go to dinner with your Marin-best-friend-you-haven’t-met-yet-but-whose-food-taste-is-nearly-exactly-like-yours. Just saying.)

The video is so cute. I can’t wait for the new book.

I haz a sad now because I’m working both nights you’re in San Francisco. So close yet so far. Congrats on the new book!

So glad you’ll be at Third Place Books! Book Larder is cute, but really can’t fit that many people. Third Place can, and is right in my neighborhood!

Read my lips…Columbus, OH keeping repeating that to yourself. I must stop on my book tour in Columbus, OH. Kelly

Is it also possible for people from Europe to get a printed recipe card for pre-ordering a copy? :)

I am not sure, but I can ask!

Deb you are so amazing and I am always happy to see the wonderful things you bring to the world (I’m making grapefruit yogurt cake this afternoon)!

I’M SO THRILLED I’M TYPING IN CAPS!

I PURCHASED THE BOOK!!!! Can’t wait to get it, with the inscription!! WOOOOOO!

So looking forward to seeing you in Chicago! Just bought my ticket, and the book!

DETROIT too, please!! :)

Please come to Phoenix…..you missed us! :(

Come to Jackson, MS!!!

Congratulations! So excited – your first cookbook is very loved in our house. Love everything we’ve made from it!

hi there, I read last week on your website that if you pre-ordered your new book you would send a bonus recipe and a note if sent the confirmation number of your order. I can’t find it now where it gave the email address to send the confirmation number. Could you please send me the email address, I would appreciate it and can’t wait to get your new book!! Thank you, Sandy

Hi — we had a preorder bonus that ended in May for the U.S. ( Details were here .) The UK publisher added a new one (details above) for UK preorders.

oh okay, thank you for responding. I just saw it last week for the first time, and I didn’t notice the dates that were specified.

I ordered in May and sent in my confirmation, but never received the bonus recipe. Can you advise where I can inquire? I’d forgotten until I saw the video.

Can’t wait to receive the new book — I cook from the first from time to time, and your site is my go-to place for new recipes.

Sorry for the trouble; can you forward the email you sent to me at [email protected] ? And thank you.

I pre-ordered in the UK in September but never received my bonus recipe. Now that I’ve remembered, is there any chance of getting this fixed? Thanks!

Send an email to [email protected] and I’ll see if the publishers have any extras.

Please add Phoenix! Not sure if you heard this from anyone else but this reader would love to see you in the desert (and the weather will be great!)!

Come to San Diego!!!

EEEEE You’re coming to Montreal!! I was almost about to convince my friend to drive me to Toronto. I’m so excited :)

Yay! I’m so excited! Congratulations to you. When your first book came out, I immediately bought two copies. One for me and one for a friend who doesn’t read blogs, but loves cookbooks. It’s now her favorite cookbook, and I can’t wait to buy her this book too (& of course one for me too). Best Wishes!

Weeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So excited for you (and us!).

Yay! Can’t wait. Also, the fact that it took you five years makes me feel a little better about some of my “in progress” projects. (But I’m sorry it took five years as well!)

Just ordered the book and I love the inscription bonus!! Can’t wait. Hope to see you live in Philly.

Congratulations! Your easy and delicious recipes will always be a winner!

Can’t wait for your new book! I hope to see you in Denver!

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook was the first English language cookbook I decided to put on my shelf, and very much in use, too. I have Smitten Kitchen Every Day on my wish list in my favourite on-line bookshop that ships to Poland, and I am counting the days. Thank you for all these smart recipes. Congratulations!

Can you come to Sacramento?! 🙏

Would love to!

Once the book is out and you are back from your tour, would you be willing to set up a page where we can ask questions on book recipes? I remember last time people would ask a question on your latest post and you would always respond, but it would be helpful if they were all in one spot. Thanks!

Please consider coming to Tucson! The food vibe here is really unique and you have a lot of fans here! Other commenters already mentioned Tucson having the UNESCO Gastronomy designation, the artisan village of Tubac, and the Book Festival on the University of Arizona’s campus. I will add that you will find new fun food inspirations, like tepary beans, nopal cactus used to make chips (savory) and syrup (tangy-sweet), and more.

But no Phoenix? (I actually live in Tucson but I can’t be too picky!) The Southwest loves you too!

I pre ordered months ago and I AM SO EXCITED for your book to come out!!! Sadly, the day that it drops I will be in Japan, but I can’t wait to cook from it the day I get back. OK, maybe the next day. Because jet lag, and all of that. You are my favorite thing on the web many days. Keep up the great cooking, Deb! And I’m wishing your book tremendous sales and excellent reviews.

Any idea if more tickets will be going on sale for the November 2nd event in DC. Went to purchase mine and was so sad it was sold out. Thank you!

Can’t wait for the new book release, are you coming to the UK at all?? We would all love to see you here! Love your recipes, your my go-to site always!

Loved your CBC interview in Vancouver yesterday! Great to meet you in person. Next project? A tv program!

Looking forward to trying out some of your recipes from your new book.

Are you planning a tour in Connecticut?

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