— Greek family cookbooks —

Preserve your Greek family recipes — before they're gone.

Hearth is building a way to capture the recipes your Yiayia has been making for forty years, in her own voice, and bind them into a hardcover cookbook your grandchildren will keep.

The Greek kitchen

Greek home cooking is olive-oil-heavy, herb-bright, and tied to the church calendar. Yiayia learned in a kitchen where the bread was made daily and the cheese was made on the porch.

The cooking comes from from Crete to Macedonia, Peloponnese to the islands — recipes shaped by the Mediterranean and Ottoman past. The diaspora carries it from Athens to Melbourne, Chicago, New York, London — Greek families carry the recipes across generations of emigration.

What gets lost

When a Greek matriarch stops cooking, what disappears first is the exact pleat on the phyllo, the proportion of dill to spinach in spanakopita, how thick to roll the dolmades. The recipe card, if it exists, lists ingredients but not technique. The way she shaped the dough — that lives in her hands, and it doesn't transfer to paper.

That's the part Hearth captures. Not the ingredient list — anyone can find that. The way she does it.

How it works

What we don't do

We don't ask her to type. We don't send her an app. We don't make her sit at a computer. The whole work happens on a phone call she answers in her own kitchen, while she's making tea or peeling something or sitting in her usual chair.

She just talks. We listen, we draft, and the recipes — and the stories behind them — become a book you can hold.