The Village Journal

Stories and guides from across our family of apps — preserving recipes, raising learners, gathering kin. Every piece lives on its app's own site; this is the table where they're all served.

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How to Digitize Handwritten Recipe Cards (Without Losing the Handwriting)

A step-by-step guide to digitizing handwritten recipe cards: photograph them right, transcribe them fast, and keep the handwriting as part of the heirloom.

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How to Make a Family Cookbook Everyone Actually Uses

From shoebox to heirloom: how to collect the recipes, gather the stories, get the whole family contributing, and print a family cookbook worth passing down.

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How to Preserve Family Recipes — Before They're Lost

A practical 5-step method for preserving family recipes: capture the dish, the story, and the voice of the person who makes it — before it's too late.

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25 Questions to Ask the Family Cook (While You Still Can)

25 questions that turn a recipe interview into a family memory — about the dish, the hands that made it, and the tables it fed. Bring a recorder.

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"Until It Looks Right": Preserving Recipes That Have No Measurements

A pinch, a feel, until it looks like Louisiana — how to preserve family recipes that were never measured, from cooks who carry them by hand and by heart.

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Record Family Recipes in Their Own Voice — Before It's Too Late

Why a 60-second voice recording preserves more of a family recipe than any written card — and how to run a 10-minute recording session with the cook you love.