Twelve interview questions
A one-page prompt sheet designed for use beside the stove, not as a formal questionnaire.
A useful first step—not a teaser
Ask the questions that make an unwritten recipe repeatable.
Bring twelve thoughtful prompts, a kitchen capture checklist, and one editable archive page to your next cooking session. Keep the quantities—and the voice behind them.
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First Recipe Kit · Field Sheet 01
Before the ingredients, find the source.
Dish name in the cook’s words
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Who taught you this?
Keep the answer in their language first.
FREE3-FILE KIT
THE MOMENT TO CAPTURE
“A little” is not the problem.
The missing part is the decision behind it. Is “a little” correcting a dry dough, balancing a sour tomato, or matching the size of a familiar family cup?
The kit helps you ask while the evidence is visible—without turning a familiar cooking session into an interrogation.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Three small files. One finished first record.
Use the files on screen or print them. No design software and no elaborate family-history project required.
Kitchen capture checklist
A reminder to record the cook, tools, packages, sequence, sensory cues, source, and permission details.
One editable archive page
A clean place to keep the original phrase, clarified instruction, story, attribution, and source files together.
SIX OF THE TWELVE PROMPTS
Questions that uncover decisions, not rehearsed answers.
Ask them at the relevant moment. A hand, sound, or texture often explains more than a number.
- 01
Who taught you this dish, and what did they call it?
- 02
Show me what ‘enough’ looks like before you add it.
- 03
What changes when the weather, ingredient, or pan changes?
- 04
What do you see, smell, hear, or feel when this stage is ready?
- 05
Which mistake is easiest to make—and how do you repair it?
- 06
What part of this recipe should our family never change?
USE IT IN ONE SESSION
A calmer twenty-minute start.
Choose one recipe.
Ask permission, write the dish name in the cook’s words, and prepare your phone.
Watch the choices.
Use only the prompts that match the action happening in front of you.
Return a useful record.
Complete the archive page, mark uncertainty honestly, and send the cook a copy.
Preserve the first recipe today
Start before “someday” becomes too late.
The download is free. The conversation is the valuable part.
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