Joy Manning

Culinary Specialties:

• Plant-based recipes
• Cholesterol-friendly cooking
• Middle Eastern cooking

Joy Manning is a food writer and recipe developer. She’s the author of the books Stuff Every Cook Should Know, Almost Meatless, and Is Our Food Killing Us? Her recipes have appeared in Food & Wine, Eating Well, Serious Eats, Epicurious and many other places. 

She became passionate about plant-based cooking and eating after a high cholesterol diagnosis in 2017. She was able to avoid medication and bring her levels into the healthy range with a plant-based diet. 

Joy is the recipe editor for the award-winning cookbook Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking by Michael Solomonov and a recipe developer for Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking by Joe Yonan. 
Her work has been nominated for a James Beard Journalism Award, an IACP award, and anthologized in The Best Food Writing book series. Learn more about her at joymanning.com.