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    Stuck on veggie ideas for Thanksgiving? The Smitten Kitchen has some advice

    Deb Perelman, creator of the hugely popular Smitten Kitchen website, whips up some budget-conscious, vegetable-centric Thanksgiving side dishes. Her new cookbook is Smitten Kitchen Keepers.
    by Melissa Block Nov 19, 2022 6 minutes
    Deb Perelman in her small "smitten" kitchen in New York City's East Village. "I make it work!" she says. "I like that there's a lot of light coming in."

    NEW YORK, N.Y. — When Deb Perelman started her blog "Smitten," back in 2003, it was really just a lark: a platform where she could mouth off and vent her twentysomething angst.

    "I was living in New York, and I was newly single and going on a lot of bad dates," she recalls. "And I just liked to tell stories."

    But a month in, she started dating one of her blog readers, Alex Perelman. They got married two years later.

    "So I couldn't write about dating anymore," she says with a chuckle. "That would have been very awkward for all of us involved."

    From that random beginning, Deb Perelman's food fame was born.

    In 2006, as she experimented more and more in the kitchen, the "Smitten" blog evolved into "Smitten Kitchen," a blog (which evolved into a website) all about food. To Perelman's shock, it took off.

    "It's just so crazy," she says. "I'm really lucky."

    That success led to two best-selling cookbooksand ), and Perelman has just published her third: . As she writes in the introduction, these are 100 time-tested, obsessively-tweaked, fuss-free "recipes I hope you'll keep around for good."

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