RASOMA
Traditional family recipes
The dish is the easy part. Rasoma keeps the rest of it: the folk measures nobody ever wrote down, the story behind the dish, and the name of the person you learned it from.
Every family has these somewhere: the back of an envelope, a card in her handwriting, a page you're frightened of losing. Rasoma keeps what's written on them, in the words they were written in.
4 potatoes — boil soft
peas + carrots, a bowlful
1 green chilli, chopped fine
breadcrumbs — enough to coat
fry till the edges catch
she never let anyone else fry them!
From Aunty Mary
by Priya Kapoor
She fried these on rainy evenings, and they never once made it to the table. She never let anyone else fry them. Written down by Priya, from Aunty Mary's card
Every recipe carries the name of the person you learned it from, not just whoever typed it in.
Not grams. A bowlful, enough to coat, until the edges catch. The measures your family really uses.
The note in the margin becomes the story, so the reason it mattered survives with the method.
Catalogued like a family archive, so the collection reads as one book rather than a pile of notes.
Browse the world's traditional cooking while your own family's book fills up.
A family group is closed and joined by invitation. Every time a recipe is opened, the server checks that you belong to the family it came from, so your recipes are seen by the people you added and nobody else.
