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Notes from the kitchen table.
Practical advice on saving family recipes, and the thinking behind how Kitchenlore treats them. Written by the people who build it.
September 18, 2026
4 min read
How to photograph a recipe card so it can be read in fifty years
Five minutes, a window and a phone. What we have learned from reading thousands of cards about the photo that saves one, and the photo that does not.
Maren Halvorsen
August 27, 2026
4 min read
Record the voice memo before you need it: questions to ask while she cooks
Most family recipes were never written down. They live in someone's hands and voice. Here is how to record them, and the questions that get the recipe and the story.
Rohan Mehta
July 9, 2026
3 min read
Why we will never fill in a smudge for you
Our software could guess the word under the coffee ring, and most of the time it would be right. Here is why it marks the spot [hard to read] instead, and why we think that makes a better book.
Maren Halvorsen
