About Me
Jessica Battilana is a freelance food writer and recipe developer based in Maine. Her first solo cookbook, Repertoire: All The Recipes You Need, was published by Little, Brown in Spring 2017; she writes a bimonthly column by the same name for The San Francisco Chronicle.
She is the coauthor of seven cookbooks, including Baking at the 20th Century Cafe, with Michelle Polzine (Artisan, 2020); The Full Plate (Little, Brown, 2020), with Ayesha Curry; Home Grown: Cooking From My New England Roots (Artisan, 2017), with chef Matt Jennings; Vietnamese Home Food (Ten Speed Press, 2012), with Charles Phan, chef/owner of the Slanted Door; Tartine Book 3 (Chronicle, 2013), with Tartine owner Chad Robertson; Sausage Making (Chronicle 2014), with butcher Ryan Farr; and Home Cooked (Ten Speed Press, 2016), with Anya Fernald.