My introduction to Deb Perelman of the fantabulous food blog smittenkitchen.com wasn't via the usual route: I found out she was speaking at my local library, a friend told me I should go, I took her advice and found Deb and warm and funny and smart, and only then did I look up her website and her first cookbook, the excellent The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. I love them both, and was so excited when I found out about Smitten Kitchen Every Day. This follow-up contains more than a hundred real recipes for real people, gorgeously illustrated.

I always rejoice when a new Smitten Kitchen cookbook hits the shelves! This time around Perelman endeavors to share 100 “keepers”, recipes so good, you’ll make them the rest of your life. Consider my family on board with this plan.