WBGO Cookbook

WBGO is creating a cookbook that will help the station raise funds to keep us on the air for you. We’re reaching out to the entire jazz community—musicians, jazz clubs, local restaurants, members and listeners…yes you!

We want to include your favorite family recipe!

Everyone* who submits a recipe will be automatically entered to win a copy of the cookbook plus a $100 gift card to enjoy dinner out on WBGO.

Submission of recipe does not guarantee inclusion in WBGO cookbook.

Enter your recipe here.

*WBGO employees, board members and CAB members are not eligible for contest, but are welcome to enter a recipe.

Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancake" recipe was written on the back of an envelope. After she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955, she and her husband lost their jobs and eventually moved to Detroit. They struggled financially and had to be frugal, which is why she reused papers, like banking envelopes, for recipes.

Rosa Parks' Pancake Recipe Helps Us See The Human Side Of A Hero

Parks jotted the recipe down on the back of an envelope. A Library of Congress curator says "this recipe is quintessentially African-American."

Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish recipe.

Cranberry Relish: The NPR Recipe That Divides Thanksgiving Tables

It's the Friday before Thanksgiving, which means it's time for the annual recitation of Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish. Love it or hate it? Listeners weigh in.

A Valentine's Day meal for two from America's Test Kitchen: coffee mug molten chocolate cake and Thai chicken with basil.

2 Recipes For 2: You And Your Valentine

From America's Test Kitchen, two dishes with heat: spicy Thai chicken served with rice and a coffee mug chocolate cake that's cooked in the microwave and results in a gooey, molten center.