Forgotten Recipes is a documentary project about food that was never written down. The measurements are a handful, a feel of the dough, a colour they know when they see it. Held in one person's memory, these dishes are always one generation from being lost. The challenge was to capture them before that happens, without flattening the person who holds them into a list of steps.

The key decision was what to make it. Rather than another recipe channel, we built a documentary archive that holds two things at once: the recipe in full, in enough detail that a stranger could make it again, and the person behind it, where they were born, who taught them, who sits at the table when it comes out. As creative director, I set the approach that ties it together. Every dish is filmed in the kitchen it has always been made in, on the day it gets made, in the cook's own words. It was a conscious choice to keep the work rooted in place and person, so the story stays as real as the food.

From there, the project came together end to end. I shaped the brand and identity, directed and filmed each visit, edited the footage, and produced the social-first content the archive lives on. It runs in both directions: the recipe survives in a form the family can follow, and the person goes on the record in their own words. The dish outlives them now.