Mahanu🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.
Master list
The first conversation, written down: every dish worth saving, who makes it best, and — the column that sets the order — how at-risk it is. A recipe that lives in one eighty-year-old's hands and has never been measured is a five-alarm fire; a dish three people can already cook can wait.
| Dish | Keeper (makes it best) | At-risk | Captured? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔴 only one person, never written | ☐ | do these first | ||
| 🟠 one household, roughly known | ☐ | |||
| 🟢 several can make it | ☐ | can wait |
At-risk scale:
- 🔴 Urgent — one keeper, all instinct, nothing written. These set the schedule.
- 🟠 Soon — known in one household but not measured.
- 🟢 Stable — several people can make it; safe for now.
How each recipe gets saved
- Cook alongside the keeper — one session per dish.
- Weigh the pinches on the spot; convert "until it looks right" into numbers and the cue ("ready when the edges lift").
- One doc per dish — real quantities, steps, a photo, and the stories that came up at the stove.
- Cook it back from the written version alone. If it doesn't come out right, the doc isn't done.