If you’re someone who would grab your ancient recipe box before running for the door in a fire, you’re not alone. To many of us, old recipe collections (Grandma’s cursive writing! Recipe cards stained ...

Quarantine has given a former New York Times columnist the time to come to grips with a lifetime’s worth of clipped and faded recipes. By Joyce Purnick This is it. The perfect time. What better ...

Walk into any Boomer kitchen and you might spot a small wooden box tucked near the stove or perched on a shelf. That humble recipe box holds more than just cooking instructions written on faded index ...

When my great-grandmother Pauline died 20 years ago, my mother requested only one item from among her possessions: her old recipe file. Not that Mom needed it for practical reasons; by then she’d ...

CYNTHIA NIMS describes herself as “a keeper of things.” Among them are her mother’s recipes, stored in a tattered accordion file held together by packing tape and a prayer. It’s so fragile that when ...

1."A few years ago, my dad was making his mother’s famed lemon meringue pie. Everyone always talked about it like it was passed down through the generations. I asked if he could write down the recipe ...

It was time to clean out my office closet, which is full of recipe file boxes from each place I have worked since graduating from cooking school in 1977. Little did I realize what an emotional ...