"It started because I'm really picky, honestly," Perelman says. For 11 years, Internet users looking for delicious, fuss-free recipes with a side of stunning food photography have been flocking to ...

Deb Perleman, creative genius behind the popular website Smitten Kitchen loves a big slice of cake as much as the rest of us. And for Smitten Kitchen's Hummingbird Cake recipe, she started with a ...

In "Quick & Dirty," Salon Food's Mary Elizabeth Williams serves up simplified recipes and shortcuts for exhausted cooks just like you — because quick and dirty should still be delicious. When I ...

If you cook regularly, you probably have a stash of recipes that you consider “keepers” — the ones you make again and again because you love the flavor and they always turn out just right. But do you ...

Molly Dunn really needs to stop writing about cookbooks, because I’m going broke and gaining weight. That goes for you, too, Patrise Shuttlesworth! “Have you seen The Smitten Kitchen?” Jeremy asked, ...

It is not so much Deb Perelman’s kitchen ingenuity—which is impressive enough—that intrigues, but her popularity. By all accounts, Perelman is the food blogger of the moment. Her Smitten Kitchen ...

Think of the smallest kitchen you can imagine, and then take away a few square feet. That's Deb Perelman's New York kitchen. It's so small that the blogger, and now author, literally has to wedge ...

There are two general camps of cookbooks: the kind that you keep on the coffee table and the kind that you keep in the kitchen. The former are big, sumptuous, glossy numbers, usually full of exotic ...