Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman @JCCSF

Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

When she started her blog Smitten Kitchen in 2006, Deb Perelman’s goal was to publish recipes she was working hard to perfect. She had no idea that her online recipe site would become the 5-million-visits-a-month tour de force that it is today. Hailed as a Barefoot Contessa to urban hosts and hostesses, Deb is a self-taught home cook making magic happen in a small New York City kitchen. Eleven years, a husband, two children and two cookbooks later, Deb joins us for a conversation with Sunset Magazine Food Editor Margo True, celebrating her triumphant and unfussy home cooking.

Join the conversation on Twitter: @ArtsJCCSF
Join the conversation on Facebook: facebook.com/ArtsandIdeasJCCSF

“Anti-Anti: We Will Not Be Silent” | JCCSF

$Adam Gopnik | JCCSF A Thousand Small Sanities: A One-Man Show JCCSF welcomes Adam Gopnik – writer for the New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon, At the Stranger’s Gate and more – for a very special one-man show based on his latest book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalism. About the Performance On election night 2016, Adam Gopnik tried – and failed – to inspire his seventeen-year-old daughter Olivia to have faith in liberal humanism during a long neighborhood walk. In this one-hour performance, Adam tries to make up for his failure by taking her again, in imagination, on a tour highlighting the great and sometimes improbable people and places that brought the liberal vision to life. Adam Gopnik is one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age, and this book may be his most masterful, meaningful, and enjoyable yet. He turns his sweeping intellectual imagination into a conversation with a cross-partisan American longing for a renewal of common life that scarcely knows how to name itself. In an age in which weve connected ourselves with scale but without quality, and fractured communal cohesion in part by forgetting our shared liberal inheritance, this book is essential redemptive reading. – Krista Tippett, host, On Being To learn more about JCCSF, visit us at https://www.jccsf.org/ Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/JCCSF/ https://www.facebook.com/JCCSF https://www.twitter.com/JCCSF Subscribe to Our Channel: @Arts & Ideas at the JCCSF$

Magnus Nilsson: The Nordic Table | JCCSF

Jewish Mixology with Jhos: The Pride-Inspired Pink Triangle Cocktail | JCCSF

Get pumped for Pride Zumbafest 2026 🌈 | JCCSF

Why Do Jewish? With Zack Bodner & Paul Geduldig | JCCSF