About · est. at the family table

Every recipe carries the people who cook it.

Recipes with Memories is a family-first kitchen notebook. You write the recipe once and let the cooking — the burned rolls, the cousin who substituted cumin, the Sunday it actually came out right — accrue around it.

Cooks

Recipes

Memories pinned

Cookbooks

What it's for

Why we built it

Recipes carry people.

Index cards get lost. Group chats forget. We wanted a place where Nonna's lamb and the story of Easter '24 live on the same page — so the recipe means what it actually means.

How it works

Cook, then write down what changed.

Pin a memory to any recipe — a photo, a note, a one-line correction. The cookbook grows the way a real one does: by being used.

Who it's for

Families, in the messy real sense.

Blood, in-laws, the cousin who married in, the friend who's been to ten Sunday dinners. Make a family, invite the people, decide what's private and what's shared.

Three doors: private, family, public

Every recipe and memory has one of three visibility settings. You pick. Defaults lean private; nothing leaves your family unless you say so.

Private

Only you. Recipes-in-progress, the ones you're not ready to share yet.

Family

Your people. The default for most cooking that happens here. Add a family, invite by handle, share by default.

Public

The world. Recipes you want others to cook. They show up in /explore — no login required.

The public kitchen

6 recipes you can read without an account.

Most recently: Mom's Apple Pie by Sofia (age 11). No paywall, no signup wall.

Open the kitchen

How a recipe grows here

A recipe starts as an index card. Then someone cooks it.

01
Write it down once.
Studio takes a typed recipe, a photo of an index card, or a link. Tag a cookbook so it has a home.
02
Cook it.
Open the recipe view, follow the steps, hit print if you like flour on your phone.
03
Pin what changed.
A photo of the finished plate. A note that you used cumin even though Pop disapproves. A correction to the timing. That's a memory — it lives next to the recipe forever.
04
Share, when you're ready.
Family by default. Public if you want others to cook it. Private if it's still drafting.

“A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.”