Preserving Recipes and Cookbooks: Your guide to preserving papers, books, and more for years to come
You know your family recipes are more than sentimental: They’re a record of family history, and a tangible record of your family members who prepared meals to nourish their loved ones, using their ingenuity and skills.
A recipe marks a moment in history, but also transcends it: The person who first made it was informed by their own history and background, tastes, and access to ingredients. And each time we make it after, we can step back into that person’s world and reconnect with them.Â
Recipes can help us connect to our family, however we define it: From siblings and parents, to close friends and community groups. And when we preserve them for the future, we’re also keeping alive the stories of their creators: Ensuring as many voices as possible are carried forward into the historical record.
So how do we preserve these important pieces of history for the future?
Preserving family materials means thinking about preserving the information they contain, as well as the physical materials: And making choices about how best to do both.
Preserving your Family Recipes teaches you to care for your physical materials and the information they contain long term: So you can be a good steward to the stories you want to pass along.
Preserving your Family Recipes and Cookbooks is a toolkit for preserving and storing materials, making decisions on how or whether to digitize, and including a brand new section on disaster recovery).
Your self-study course includes:
- An in-depth video class on preserving physical materials, from old books to recipe cards, so you can keep them around for years to come.
- A recipe and cookbook preservation handbook, which includes information on digitizing and sharing recipes.
- A guide for disaster planning and management for paper materials, like cookbooks, recipe cards, and family papers.
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