There are good recipes and there are great onesmdashand then there are genius recipes Genius recipes surprise us and make us rethink the way we cook They might involve an unexpectedly simple technique debunk a kitchen myth or apply a familiar ingredient in a new way Theyrsquore handed down by luminaries of the food world and become their legacies And once wersquove folded them into our repertoires they make us feel pretty genius too In this collection are of the smartest and most remarkable ones There isnrsquot yet a single cookbook where you can find Marcella Hazanrsquos Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter Jim Laheyrsquos No-Knead Bread and Nigella Lawsonrsquos Dense Chocolate Loaf Cakemdashplus dozens more of the most talked about just-crazy-enough-to-work recipes of our time Until now These are what Food Executive Editor Kristen Miglore calls genius recipes Passed down from the cookbook authors chefs and bloggers who made them legendary these foolproof recipes rethink cooking tropes solve problems get us talking and make cooking more fun Every week Kristen features one such recipe and explains just whatrsquos so brilliant about it in the James Beard Award-nominated Genius Recipes column on Food Here in this book she compiles of the most essential onesmdashnearly half of which have never been featured in the columnmdashwith tips riffs mini-recipes and stunning photographs from James Ransom to create a cooking canon that will stand the test of time Once you try Michael Ruhlmanrsquos fried chicken or Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimirsquos hummus yoursquoll never want to go back to other versions But therersquos also a surprising ginger juice you didnrsquot realize you were missing and will want to put on everythingmdashand a way to cook white chocolate that finally exposes its hidden glory Some of these recipes yoursquoll follow to a T but others will be jumping-off points for you to experiment with and make your own Either way with Kristen at the helm revealing and explaining the genius of each recipe Genius Recipes is destined to become every home cookrsquos go-to resource for smart memorable cookingmdashbecause no one cook could have taught us so much.
