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Family recipes are usually lost the same way — the ingredients survive and the cooking does not. These are practical notes on keeping both.

• How to preserve family recipes — with video, not just cards

  Recipe cards lose the parts that matter: the timing, the texture, the hands. A practical guide to recording family recipes so they survive.

  6 min read

• How to record your grandmother's recipe before it's gone

  A step-by-step way to film an older relative cooking — how to ask, what to shoot, and what to do if they say no.

  7 min read

Lumiere Dish is a free app for keeping family recipes as short videos, with the ingredients and the story attached. See what it does.