The Culinary Heritage Project
Recipe Rescue Day
- Purpose
- Gather handwritten recipes, photographs and the stories behind them.
- Suitable setting
- Kitchen table, community room, library, or family archive day.
- Suggested participants
- Anyone holding a recipe, notebook, or photograph.
- Group size
- Drop-in, 1–20 at a time.
- Approximate format
- Stations for photograph, spoken story, and written names. 15–30 minutes per person.
- Host guidance
- Never rewrite the handwriting. Photograph the page. Ask who wrote it and in which language.
- Preservation prompts
- Whose hand is this? When was it written? What is missing from the page?
- Suggested interview questions
- Can you still cook from this? What did “a handful” mean in that house?
- What to bring
- Notebooks, cards, stained pages, photographs. Keep the original; KinDish stores a working copy.
- KinDish contribution methods
- Upload a photograph or recipe, then speak or write the story beside it.
- Privacy and consent
- The page owner decides privacy. Do not publish a family notebook as public without asking.
- What knowledge this event tries to preserve
- Original wording, measures as written, language of the page, the cook’s name.
- Expected archival outcome
- Photographs of originals plus spoken or written context in KinDish. The page is never overwritten.