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
August
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 August, 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
Krishna Anand's Baingan ka Bharta
onions, cooked till pink
tomatoes, salt & deghi mirch
2 slit green chillies
fold in mashed bhuna baingan
simmer till smoky & rich
Don't let it turn brown.
Cook Krishna's recipe →A treasured family recipe, carried from Krishna's kitchen into yours.
This month's story from the OPR cookbook
Gautam & Shobha's Tandoori Aloo Nazakat
New Delhi, India
When Gautam was preparing to open his first restaurant, Martabaan Tales, he turned to his mum, Shobha. Her Tandoori Aloo Nazakat became part of the moment a family lesson turned into the first step of his professional story.
Read Gautam & Shobha'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.