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 ...

Pat Jones struggles to find ways to organize the many recipes she compulsively collects. Jones isn't alone. Some cooks simply search through stacks of recipes every time they need one. But others have ...

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 ...

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 ...