Jessica Battilana

A photo of Jessica Battiliana, a contributing writer at Serious Eats.

Location: Maine

Expertise: Recipe Development

Jessica Battilana is an experienced food writer and recipe developer. She's the author of Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need (2018).
Battilana has co-authored eight other cookbooks, including Tartine Book No. 3 (2013) with Chad Robertson.
She has written a bimonthly cooking column for the San Francisco Chronicle since 2014.

Experience

Jessica Battilana writes about food and creates recipes from her home in Maine. Her cookbook, Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need (2017), is filled with 75 foundational recipes from her own kitchen, from casual snacks to dinner party food and celebration cakes.

Battilana has co-authored eight cookbooks, including Vietnamese Home Cooking (2012) with Charles Phan, Tartine Book No. 3 (2013) with Chad Robertson and Baking at the 20th Century Café (2020) with Michelle Polzine.

Seasonal recipes can be found in her bimonthly cooking column in the San Francisco Chronicle, also called "Repertoire." Battilana's work can also be found at TheKitchn and Saveur magazine.

What is your desert island food?

"Potatoes."

About Serious Eats

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