A gift for new grandparents, when everyone else is buying for the baby

Ask an adult what their grandmother cooked and you'll get an answer in under two seconds, usually one dish, usually with a detail about the pan. That's what's starting right now, and it's starting in a kitchen where nothing is written down because nobody has ever needed it written down.

So give them a place with their name on it where the food goes as it happens: the thing they make when the baby sleeps over, the birthday cake once there's a birthday, the soup that gets driven across town when everyone has a cold.

It also solves a real problem about eighteen months from now, when the new parents text at 6pm asking what exactly Grandpa puts in the rice, because the toddler will eat his and nobody else's.

1. Sign in with your email. There's no password to invent, we send a one-time link.
2. Choose the address, something like recipememoir.com/u/nanaandpop.
3. Add your three recipes. Type them in, or paste a link if one of them lives on a food site. Photograph a handwritten card if you have one, so the handwriting sits on the page.
4. Pick from 24 styles. Each previews with real recipes, so you can see it before you choose.
5. Write the address on a card and hand it over. Show them how to add one recipe while you're standing there, because the first one they add themselves is the moment it becomes theirs.

The whole setup is an evening at most. If they later want to bring in a bigger collection, a Paprika export file drops straight in and 1,600 recipes take a few minutes.