It’s plain as the cottage cheese in their Jell-O: I struck a chord last week when I wrote about newspaper-recipe archives, including thousands of clippings from a bygone era, indexed in an old card ...

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 ...

There’s nothing quite as special as a hand-written recipe. The rushed scrawl of a passionate chef, the blotchy stains ...