Recently, I was doing some delayed cleaning of those “stashed away” boxes and baskets and found so many bits and pieces of notebook paper and cards with recipes I had written down.

Recipe boxes filled with family favorite recipes shared from friends and family used to be a kitchen staple. However, with rise of the internet and Google with millions of recipes at our “electronic” ...

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 ...