Welcome to vintage kitchens, where we discover stories from the edges of time.

Lost Recipes is a blog seeking to uncover the hidden stories of individuals who once curated recipe boxes. These collections are personal archives of lives lived through food. Each one a mystery to be solved. We piece together clues found in the cards to illuminate experiences, tastes, and cultural textures of the original collector. 

Part culinary adventure, part historical detective work, this project celebrates the stories and traditions coded in the margins, and tucked between the faded index cards of vintage recipe collections. 

You’re invited to read along as each box is opened, each card studied, and each clipping followed like clues in a detective story.