The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
ISBN: 9780307595652
Publication Date: 30 October 2012

The long-awaited cookbook by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen--home cook, mom, photographer, and celebrated food blogger.
Deb Perelman loves to cook. It's as simple as that. She isn't a chef or a restaurant owner--she's never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions--and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You'll get more than three million results. How do you choose? Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that's downright bad?
So Deb founded her award-winning blog, smittenkitchen.com, on the premise that cooking should be a pleasure, and that the results of your labor can--and should be--delicious...every time. Deb is a firm believer that there are no bad cooks, just bad recipes. She has dedicated herself to finding the best of the best and adapting them for the everyday cook--the ones with little time to spare, little money to burn on unpronounceable ingredients, and little help in the kitchen. And now, with the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her blog is known for, Deb presents her first cookbook--more than 100 new recipes, plus a few favorites from her site, all gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of Deb's beautiful color photographs.
"The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook "is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking: stepped-up comfort foods, stewy dishes for windy winter afternoons, an apple cake that will answer all questions: "What should my new signature dessert be?" "What is always welcome at a potluck?" "What did Deb consume almost single-handedly a week after having a baby?" These are the recipes you bookmark and use so often they become your own; recipes you slip to a friend who wants t...