There are good recipes and there are great onesand 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. Theyre handed down by luminaries of the food world and become their legacies. And, once weve folded them into our repertoires, they make us feel pretty genius too. In this collection are 100 of the smartest and most remarkable ones.

There isnt yet a single cookbook where you can find Marcella Hazans Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter, Jim Laheys No-Knead Bread, and Nigella Lawsons Dense Chocolate Loaf Cakeplus dozens more of the most talked about, just-crazy-enough-to-work recipes of our time. Until now.

These are what Food52 Executive Editor Kristen Miglore calls genius recipes. Passed down from the cookbook authors, chefs, and