The Culinary Heritage Project

Start from a Kit

Use a ready-to-run preservation format and make it your own.

• Family Memory Dinner

  Gather generations around one table and preserve the food memories connecting them.

• Ask Your Grandmother

  A youth oral-history format for preserving an elder’s food knowledge.

• Recipe Rescue Day

  Gather handwritten recipes, photographs and the stories behind them.

• Kitchen Demonstration

  Preserve how someone actually prepares a dish — technique, terminology, equipment, substitutions and memory.

• Migration Through Food

  Trace what a family or community carried, changed and retained as it moved.

• Community Recording Day

  Create a temporary preservation space where people can record culinary testimony.

• Festival Kiosk

  Turn a festival, exhibition or public event into a culinary-memory collection point.

• The Common Table

  Bring people from different places, cultures or communities together through personal food memory.