No.3 The Hot 100 · October 2026

Smitten Kitchen

Deb Perelman · New York, USA

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Panel read 92/100 · Cooked by members 0 · In the press 0 · No new recipe counted this month

Seventeen years of cooking in a tiny New York kitchen, each recipe re-made until it earns its place, written like a friend talking you through it.

What people come to them for

Chocolate peanut butter cake · Jacked-up banana bread · Perfect blueberry muffins

Smitten Kitchen Keepers (2022)

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