Perelman's second cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites, was published in 2017. She published her third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files, in 2022. Perelman lives in New York City with her husband Alex.

The Smitten Kitchen is a 16 year-old food blog celebrating triumphant but unfussy cooking. It. wants to be the place you go to find your new favorite thing to cook. Physically, the Smitten Kitchen is a kind of half-galley with a wobbly, peeling cart used as a cooking surface.

From the verb coquere came the later Latin noun coquina, meaning “a kitchen.” With some changes in pronunciation, coquina came into Old English as cycene. This became Middle English kichene and finally modern English kitchen.

The 1600s were the century in which the modern kitchen took off. For the first time, the general public began to view the room as separate from the rest of the abode. It was no longer a secret of the wealthy. The first modern kitchens began appearing in England.