✨ Family Recipe Preservation

The recipes she never
wrote down
finally preserved.

Capture your mom's biryani, your nonna's ragù, your yaya's spanakopita — before it's too late. Heirloom Kitchen turns family cooking traditions into beautiful recipe books that last forever.

✨ AI-Powered Recipe Formatting
Mom's Recipe · Preserved Forever
Nani's Chicken Biryani
Serves: 6–8 people
Prep: 30 min · Cook: 1.5 hrs
Ingredients: 24 items measured
"She never measured the saffron. 'Enough to make it golden,' she'd say. We finally figured it out — ¼ tsp, bloomed in warm milk for 10 minutes."
The Hard Truth

The recipes that live
only in her hands

She cooks by feel. By smell. By memory. And one day — without warning — that knowledge will be gone forever.

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"She doesn't measure. She just knows."

A pinch of this. Some of that. The kind of cooking that takes 40 years to learn and 10 minutes to forget. Your grandmother learned from her mother, who learned from hers. That chain almost broke with you.

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"I've watched her make it a hundred times, but I can't remember the steps."

You've eaten her Sunday gravy your whole life. You've stood next to her in the kitchen. But without the recipe written down, you can't make it on your own. Not really.

"One day, you'll wish you had written it down."

That day comes for every family. The question is whether you acted before it arrived. The recipes that feel permanent — the ones you've eaten your whole life — are more fragile than you think.

73%

of family recipes are lost within one generation. Most families don't realize it until it's too late.

Simple as Cooking Together

Three steps to forever

You don't need to be technical. You don't need perfect measurements. You just need to start.

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Collect

Type rough notes, upload iPhone photos of dishes, or record audio conversations while cooking together. Any format works — our AI handles the rest.

2

Transform

Our AI formats everything into beautiful, properly measured recipes — with a story headnote, ingredient list, step-by-step instructions, and photos that look professionally taken.

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Preserve

Download a gorgeous PDF instantly, or order a printed hardcover book that becomes a physical family heirloom — something your grandchildren will pull off the shelf someday.

Everything You Need

Built for real family kitchens

Not a recipe manager. Not a photo album. A preservation platform built specifically for the cooking that lives only in memory.

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Voice Recording

Record grandma as she cooks. Her stories, her tips, her "secret" that isn't written anywhere. We transcribe and format everything automatically.

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Photo Enhancement

iPhone snapshots become professional-quality food photography. Upload the photo from Sunday dinner — we make it look like it belongs in a cookbook.

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Weekly Guided Prompts

We guide you through 12 weeks of recipe collection with questions that draw out every dish — from everyday meals to holiday traditions to the things only made on special occasions.

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AI Recipe Formatting

Rough notes become proper recipes with measured ingredients, step-by-step instructions, prep/cook times, and a story headnote that captures the history behind the dish.

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Beautiful PDF Export

Download a gorgeously designed PDF instantly. Print at home, share with siblings, or use as the foundation for a printed book order.

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Cultural Intelligence

We speak your family's food language. Every cuisine, every tradition, every technique — from biryani to pierogi to mole to spanakopita. No recipe gets lost in translation.

Simple, Honest Pricing

Start free. Scale when ready.

No credit card required to start. Your family's recipes are too important to sit behind a paywall.

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Mother's Day, Diwali, Eid, Christmas, or any moment you want to say "your recipes matter."
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From Our Community

Stories from real families

Every family has recipes that almost disappeared. These are the ones that didn't.

★★★★★

"My mom's biryani has been the centerpiece of every Eid for 40 years. She learned it from her mother in Hyderabad. After she had a stroke last year, I panicked — I'd never actually written it down. Heirloom Kitchen helped me record her walking me through it one last time. That recording, that recipe, is one of the most precious things I own."

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Priya S.
San Jose, CA
★★★★★

"Every Sunday growing up, my nonna made her ragù. Six hours, same pot, same window. She passed two years ago and I thought that recipe was gone with her. Heirloom Kitchen helped me piece it together from my memories, my cousin's notes, and an old video my uncle found. I made it last Sunday. My kids called it 'the best thing I ever cooked.' That's all her."

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Maria C.
New York, NY
★★★★★

"My halmeoni is 84 and makes the best kimchi I've ever had. She's been making it for 60 years and never used a recipe. I used Heirloom Kitchen to record her teaching me last Chuseok — her hands, her stories, the whole thing. The book arrived two weeks later. She cried when she saw it. I did too."

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Sarah K.
Chicago, IL

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Questions & Answers

Common questions

Not at all. If you can send a text message or take a photo with your phone, you can use Heirloom Kitchen. We built it specifically for people who want to preserve family recipes — not build an app. The hardest part is just starting the conversation with your parent or grandparent.
That's exactly who we're built for. Our AI is specifically trained to work backward from "some flour, a bit of yogurt, maybe a cup?" and produce a properly measured recipe. You can also record your parent cooking and we'll transcribe their narration — "I add the spice until it smells right" becomes real instructions your kids can follow in 30 years.
You can submit recipes in English, and we handle ingredients, techniques, and dish names from every culinary tradition. If your grandmother narrates in another language, transcription support varies — reach out and we'll do our best. The final recipe book is produced in English with original names preserved.
Most families collect their core recipes over 8–12 weeks following our guided prompt schedule. If you're in a hurry (a parent is ill, or there's a meaningful occasion coming up), you can move faster — some families have built a complete book in a single dedicated weekend. The printed book ships in 7–10 business days after you approve your digital proof.
Your recipes are yours — always. We never share them publicly, sell them, or use them to train AI without explicit consent. Your family's food heritage is private and stored securely. You can export or delete your data at any time.
Absolutely — and this is one of the most powerful uses. Many families collect from both sides, across multiple generations. Your grandma's biryani, your dad's tandoori, your aunt's halwa — all in one book, organized the way you want, with each person's story attached to their recipe.