— Lebanese family cookbooks —

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

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

The Lebanese kitchen

The Lebanese kitchen is built on what's seasonal, what's local, and what's already in the pantry. The recipes are simple lists; the technique lives in the cook's hands.

The cooking comes from the Levant — from Beirut to Tripoli, Tyre to Baalbek. The diaspora carries it from Beirut to São Paulo, Sydney, Detroit, Dakar — wherever Lebanese families settled.

What gets lost

When a Lebanese matriarch stops cooking, what disappears first is the exact way she shaped the kibbeh, the ratio of cracked wheat to lamb, the spice blend she mixed by feel. 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.