20 July 2026
How to Take Food Photos on Your Phone
Window light, no flash, side or back lighting, plain backgrounds and the right angle. How to shoot food on a phone well enough to print.
31 July 2026
How to Make a Family Cookbook
A step-by-step guide to making a family cookbook - gathering recipes, writing them up, photos, layout and printing. Written by people who print them.
27 July 2026
How to Write a Recipe (So Someone Else Can Cook It)
How to write a recipe properly: ingredients in order of use, one action per step, cues as well as times, and the details people always leave out.
24 July 2026
How to Organise a Cookbook
Four ways to organise a cookbook, which one to pick, how to order recipes within a chapter, and the navigation every book needs.
22 July 2026
Cookbook Design: The 7 Rules That Do Most of the Work
What makes a cookbook look professionally designed: consistency, two fonts, white space, one recipe per page, a grid, and the navigation nobody notices.
17 July 2026
How to Digitise Old Handwritten Recipe Cards Before They Fade
Photograph, name, back up and transcribe old family recipe cards - including what to do with "a knob of butter" and "bake till done".
26 June 2026
How to gather recipes from family without the chaos
Getting everyone to contribute sounds simple. In practice, it involves three unanswered group chats, a relative who only cooks by feel, and someone who insists their recipe is secret. Here is how to make it painless.