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Deb Perelman cooking from a famously tiny New York kitchen since 2006, testing everything obsessively and writing about it well.
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Smitten Kitchen sits in Food & Recipes under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Recipe engines that start from your ingredients rather than your ambitions, plus the food writing worth reading for its own sake.
Yes. Smitten Kitchen is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Smitten Kitchen without signing up for anything.
Yes. Smitten Kitchen works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Tick off what is genuinely in your cupboards and it ranks the recipes you can make right now, with nothing missing.
World atlas of traditional dishes and the specific places that still make them properly. Endless, and reliably makes you hungry.
One family documenting Chinese home cooking across two generations, with real detail on ingredients and what you can substitute.
Vast crowd-sourced recipe database where the comments are the actual feature — thousands of people telling you what to change.
Clean solitaire collection with hints, statistics and daily challenges spread across a dozen different variants.
Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.
A daily letter grid with dozens of words buried in it, plus a bonus list that runs on far longer than anyone expects.
Public domain classics reset properly — typography fixed, typos corrected, covers designed — and then given away.
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