Preserving Family Recipes: How To Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions

Written by an archivist, this guide is excellent for not only explaining how to preserve the many formats upon which family recipes have been recorded and saved over time but also for encouraging the conservation of a recipe's essential value by continuing to create and share the dish. In seven engaging and informative chapters, Frey demonstrates how to organize, manage, and share a recipe preservation project from beginning to end. The chapters follow a natural progression, but Frey encourages readers to skip among them according to individual needs and explains how her instructions may be tailored to different projects at any stage. Practical advice such as how to adjust recipes, interview family members, research recipes with unknown provenance, and interpret world or regional recipes are balanced and illustrated with stories from Frey and others. Three appendixes offer more in-depth examples of how to apply the book's instructions by examining how Frey adjusted, researched, and explored the overall legacy of a family recipe.