Our Top 10 Most Popular Recipes of 2013

Our recipes are like our children: Yes, we love them all equally, but secretly we love the popular, successful ones much more than the others. We can't help it. It's just how our brains are wired. Think about it: Would you rather hang out in a room full of attractive, widely admired recipes, or with a bunch of geeky loner recipes? And don't say, "I prefer to hang out in rooms full of people, not recipes." You're missing the point.

If Bon Appétit were a high school—and on some days it may as well be—these 10 recipes would be the jocks and the cheerleaders, the cool kids. They got more clicks and views than any others on our site this year, because they're so charismatic and athletic and good-looking. Among them you'll find time-honored classics like Caesar salad, barbecued ribs, and crispy baked chicken wings, but also more fashionable fare: Parmesan-roasted cauliflower, red wine-braised short ribs. They're all delicious; we recommend cooking them en masse and basking in their popular glow. Just don't tell the less-popular recipes where you've been. They can be awfully judgmental about these things.