Diane DiTullio Agostino was trying not to get emotional. But talking about her late mother’s recipe cards — her mom’s beautiful Catholic schoolgirl handwriting, the ancient spaghetti sauce stains, ...

There’s no better gauge of a dessert’s greatness than how fast it vanishes or how quickly someone whips out a pen to scribble the recipe on a napkin. These desserts are the ones that live on long ...

It’s plain as the cottage cheese in their Jell-O: I struck a chord last week when I wrote about newspaper-recipe archives, including thousands of clippings from a bygone era, indexed in an old card ...