Jennifer Perillo, Contributing Writer for The Spruce Eats

Business:

Expertise: home cooking, family meals

Jennifer Perillo is a writer and recipe developer with an interest in updating classic dishes and developing brand new recipes.

Highlights

19 years experience in the food industry
Founder of In Jennie's Kitchen, a popular food and recipe blog
Author of Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from In Jennie's Kitchen

Experience

In addition to running her highly-successful blog, Jennifer is a contributor to several lifestyle publications, including Food Network, Parents, Relish, Food52 and Saveur. She also develops recipes for leading appliance and kitchenware brands such as Cuisinart and KitchenAid. From 2008 to 2016, Jennifer served as the Consulting Food Editor for Working Mother Magazine.

Education

Jennifer received a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism at Brooklyn College CUNY.

Awards and Publications

She has authored a cookbook, Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from In Jennie's Kitchen (Running Press in 2013), and also served as a recipe developer for two others: Whole New You by Tia Mowry (Penguin Random House 2017) and Patricia Heaton's Food for Family and Friends (HarperCollins 2018).

Jennifer was also the winner of several Food52 recipe contests: Best Preserves (Sweet & Savory Tomato Jam), Best Baked Pasta Recipe (Homemade Manicotti), and Wildcard Best Recipe Winners (Seriously Delicious Ribs, French Onion Tart).

About The Spruce Eats

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