A Living Cookbook
Other People's Recipes™
Every Recipe has a Story.
Other People's Recipes is a living cookbook preserving the recipes families return to, and the people, memories and traditions behind them.
Live cook-along · Sunday 4 October, 5pm UK time
Cook Dave's Butter Chicken with him, live over Zoom.
OPR invitation
September
2026
A month for the meals that make a family feel at home.
The Recipe That Feels Like Home
Every family has that one recipe. What's yours?
Throughout September, we're looking for the recipes your family asks for again and again. Share the recipe and the story behind it for a chance to be featured in the OPR Cookbook and shared with our growing community.
Your family story could be next.
Every family has a recipe worth remembering.
Other People's Recipes exists to preserve the meals, memories and traditions that make a house feel like home.
Why we started
Recipes are more than instructions.
They are Sunday lunches, birthday cakes, handwritten notes and the people who taught us how to cook them.
We are creating a living collection of family recipes and the stories behind them — shared with care, discovered by others, and one day celebrated around real restaurant tables.
From the kitchen drawer
Mum's Apple/Pear Chutney
windfall apples or pears
onions, sultanas & brown sugar
vinegar, ginger & garlic
simmer until thick and brown
spoon into prepared jars while hot
Label it, then let the flavours mellow.
Cook Mum's chutney recipe →A family staple, passed from Georgina's grandmother to her mum and into kitchens across the family.
This month's story from the OPR cookbook
Pat's Haddock and Tomato Bake
New Malden, England
This was a regular favourite in Amy's house when she was growing up. Her mum, Pat, hated cooking, but everything she made was delicious — and made with love.
Read Pat's story →
A LIVING COOKBOOK
Every Family Has One Recipe
Hidden inside kitchen drawers, handwritten notebooks and old family albums are recipes that deserve to be remembered.
Other People's Recipes exists to preserve not only the food, but the people, memories and traditions behind it.