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Ninety-Four Years of Joy

Welcome to the official Joy of Cooking website! Come for the recipes, stay for the stories (we've got about 100 years’ worth). We'll share recipes new and old, projects we're working on, and, as always, more helpful cooking advice than you can shake a spatula at.

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RECIPES

Featured Recipes

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Apps & Snacks, Baking, Breakfast, Desserts

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Worth making in its own right, even if your zucchini crop was a bust.

Overhead view of Sichuan-style cucumber pickles in a shallow white bowl.

Condiments, Preservation

Sichuan-Style Cucumber Pickles
All these spicy pickles take is a little patience and a few minutes to fry the Sichuan pepper, dried chiles, and mustard seeds.
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Baking, Desserts

Olive Oil Cake
The perfect "anytime" cake.
Steamed mussels, served with a bowl of fries and a ramekin of aîoli. A glass of white wine is nearby.

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Moules Frites
One route to happiness: plump mussels, rich broth, crisp fries, garlicky aïoli, and crusty bread.
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Steamed mussels, served with a bowl of fries and a ramekin of aîoli. A glass of white wine is nearby.

Mains

Moules Frites

One route to happiness: plump mussels, rich broth, crisp fries, garlicky aïoli, and crusty bread.
Read
Overhead view of salted chanterelle mushrooms in a mixing bowl. A Dutch oven containing olive oil and garlic, shallot, and fresh herbs is nearby.

Apps & Snacks, Condiments, Sides

Mushroom Confit

Bathe your shrooms in olive oil with garlic, shallots, and herbs.
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Overhead view of a Texas sheet cake, cut into square slices. Each slice has been topped with one plump bourbon-soaked cherry.

Baking, Desserts

Texas Sheet Cake

Rich, chocolatey cake for 20+ guests? Check.
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Baking, Desserts

Olive Oil Cake

The perfect "anytime" cake.
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Closeup of two portions of hot-smoked salmon, resting on a cooling rack set over a quarter sheet pan.

Apps & Snacks

Hot-Smoked Salmon

Lox steals the limelight, but hot-smoked salmon deserves its own obsessive following.
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  • After my granola reel, I wanted to share more about sorghum syrup, a sweetener very close to my heart. Thank you @cathyguthrie4 for sharing a couple of the photos featured in this reel.
  • This is my signature granola, a recipe I tweaked for years until I got it ✨just right✨. When I had a little baking business, this granola sold out every week. Now the recipe is yours! My secret ingredient is sorghum syrup, which I will discuss in a future video. But don’t worry—you can make it even if you don’t have sorghum syrup in your pantry. If you have a 2019 Joy of Cooking, find the recipe on page 327.
  • Our latest episode features the delightful @mashamabailey of @thegreysavannah ! We talk about her recent opening of @larretparis and the challenges of presenting elevated Southern food to a French audience. Plus: lasagne-making as group activity, how “that sounds interesting” means “I’m not trying it” in Southern grandmother speak, chicken and dumplings + coq au vin?, the prospect of a Country Captain party, and the pleasures of babysitting a lazily burbling pot of bone broth on a brisk day. Listen in! 📸: @alice_casenave
  • R.I.P. to all the books I’ve loaned out only to lose them because I recorded the borrower’s name in my notes app and deleted the note later because I couldn’t remember what it was supposed to mean 🫠