Letters and e-mail pour in from all over the world. With close to a hundred recipes on the site, she is constantly fielding questions about her family origins and responding to messages letting her know that her recipes have helped salvage part of a family's lost heritage. I could not remember how she made it. Thank you so much. So many of my mom's recipes are on your site.
Some sites offer a bit of family color and even a hint of intrigue.
I've had to do some late-night rewriting of Ma's recipes when she finally got a chance to look the page over. For some, the main motivation for posting recipes on the Web is simply convenience. My wife knew where everything was, but I couldn't find anything. So he put them on a Web site for easy reference, not only for himself but for his two sons and their wives as well. Her daughter, Gina, who has her first off-campus apartment at Purdue University, often calls to ask her to add particular family favorites to the site and has begun to add recipes of her own.