Author Deb Perelman, Smitten Kitchen Keepers

Darien Library, along with Barrett Bookstore, welcome Internet and cooking sensation, Deb Perelman, to discuss her new book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files.

The wait is over: this new book from the best-selling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Day is a carefully curated collection of 100 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, these recipes are, as the name suggests--keepers, from Perelman's forever files to yours.  They will make shopping easier, preparation more practical and enjoyable, and food more reliably delicious for the home cook.

Deb will be in conversation with Page Berger of Darien's Barrett Bookstore.

About Deb Perelman

Deb Perelman is the author of two best-selling cookbooks and is one of the Internet's most successful food bloggers. Smitten Kitchen Keepers is her third cookbook, and will be released on November 22, 2022. A self-taught cook and photographer, Perelman obsessively tests her recipes in her tiny kitchen for accuracy to make sure that not a single bowl is wasted and that the results are always worth the effort, and are simply and utterly delicious. Her award-winning blog, SmittenKitchen.com, is a homegrown brand that now has more than one million Instagram followers. She lives in New York City with her husband and their children.

About Page Berger

Page Berger is a freelance writer, interviewer and the Marketing and Event Director at Barrett Bookstore in Darien, where she leads the bookstore’s effort to bring dynamic programming and authors to Darien and surrounding towns, partnering with libraries, non-profits, and businesses to create lively, sometimes powerful, community conversations. Page has a particular love for helping others tell their stories; recent interviews conducted by Page include conversations with Amy Bloom, Chef Mashama Bailey and her business partner John O. Morisano, Emma Straub, Jasmine Guillory, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Elizabeth Lesser, Chef Jacques Pepin, Melissa Clark, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Suleika Jaouad, and Jennifer Weiner among others.

Copies of Smitten Kitchen Keepers will be available for purchase at the event.

Photo of Deb Perelman by Christine Han