The Cookbook
The dishes you make, the stories behind them, and the ones your people send back.
Nothing to pay until it goes to press.
Recipes from the people who love
Sofía
Your name goes on the cover.
For us this book isn’t just recipes, it’s having everyone with us in this new chapter, in the most beautiful, everyday way there is.
With your people
Send one link. Each person adds the recipe they're known for and signs it. Every recipe gets its own page.
Tuesday Chili
Laura
Tuesday Chili
Make it on a Tuesday. It's better on Wednesday.
Tuna Tostadas
Becky
Tuna Tostadas
Double the lime. Don't tell anyone.
Salmão com Azeitonas
Tia Lu
Salmão com Azeitonas
Sunday lunch, every Sunday, since 1989.
Birthday Carrot Cake
Noa
Birthday Carrot Cake
The only cake I make. Twice a year.
Fish Tacos, Our Way
Marina
Fish Tacos, Our Way
Eat them hot. Nobody waits anyway.
Pan de Plátano
Don Chava
Pan de Plátano
Así lo hacía mi mamá.
6 people · 6 recipes · An image of every dish · Every page signed · Hardcover, 8 × 10 in
When to make one
Most start about six weeks out. Your people need a couple of weeks to send their recipes, and we need three to make the book.
Nothing to pay until it goes to press.
01
One recipe, typed or pasted. You see it on the page before you make an account. Add more whenever you want.
02
Share a link when you're ready. They type it out or snap a photo of the card, and sign it. No app, no account. Or keep it just yours.
03
We make an image of every dish, design every page, and print the hardcover. A person reads the whole book before it goes to press, then it ships to your door.
For the organizer
Send this link to everyone who should be in the book.
They submit a recipe. We design and print the book. That’s it.
Preview what guests will see
Add them yourself, share a link, or hand it to captains.
Small Plates & Co.
Review your recipe
✎ EditKarla Machado
Frango c/ mandioca
Ingredients
mandioca cozida ½ kilo até derreter, amassada e misturada c/ manteiga
forrar o pirex
Instructions
1. cozinhar o peito de frango, desfiar e dourar c/ cebola ralada, manteiga, sal, molho de tomate
2. joga o molho por cima da massa
3. diluir um copo de requeijão com leite
4. cobre tudo e um pouco de queijo parmesão
5. põe pra assar em forno pré-aquecido
Snap the handwritten card. We turn it into a designed page.
From: You
To: John, Carlos
Reminder: your recipe for Ana & Rich’s book
“The page is still open. It only takes five minutes.”
Sent with one tap
See who has not sent theirs yet and write to all of them at once.
Captains
Everyone you name gets the same dashboard you do.
Nº 01 · Est. 2026
A cookbook club is what happens when cooking for each other stops being an accident. It gets a name. It gets rules. Everyone in it cooks something better than you do, and now you have the recipe.
We make the book the club writes. Everyone shares the recipes they actually cook at home, each one signed by the person who sent it, printed in hardcover, one copy each. No occasion, nobody to surprise. Another way to share what you cook, with the people who would all be at the same table if they could.
Nothing to pay until it goes to press.
The only way to know your people through their food, and keep them in your kitchen.
Your dashboard
See what’s in, write to whoever is missing, change your link, name captains.
The link you share
No app, no account. They open it on their phone, type the recipe or snap a photo of the card, and sign it.
See what your people see(opens in a new tab)
The
Wedding Cookbook
Both families, and the friends who are basically family. Everyone sends the dish they are known for, and it comes back as a hardcover with their names in it.
The rice from one grandmother, the mole from the other side, your roommate's pasta at 2am, the cousin who swears they don't cook.
Name a sister, a best friend, someone from the other family. They get the same dashboard you do and go after their own list, so it stops being yours alone.
Bridal showers, engagements, anniversaries. Same book, another reason to hand it over.
The wedding lasts a day. The people in it stay in the kitchen.
Read: Everything at a wedding is about the people. Except the gift.
Real notes, word for word
Notes that bring the people who shared them to your table.
Some of my best conversations with Michael have been over a cold beer. No rush, no agenda — just time to catch up and laugh. This is less of a recipe and more of a reminder: always make time for the people you love.
...May your life together be full of quiet mornings, long breakfasts, and small rituals that become big memories.
Every book is hardcover and full color. Because what's inside deserves to be held in something real.
Recipes from the people who love
Bárbara
Albert
Recipes from the people who love
Mom
Recipes from the members of
TheSundayClub
The Book
Every Small Plates book is a hardcover cookbook — professionally designed and printed in full color. No templates. No shortcuts.
Each book is different, because every group's people are different.
Hardcover · Full color · 8 × 10 in · Matte finish
Clean, elegant, and made to look right left out on a counter rather than put away on a shelf.
Professionally designed with AI-generated photography for every recipe. Your people’s food, presented the way it deserves.
Each with a personal note from the person who sent it. Their recipe. Their words. Their page in the book.
Letter size. Big enough to cook from comfortably. The kind of book you leave open on the counter — not tucked away on a shelf.
Bound with Polyurethane Reactive glue — the strongest binding available. Made to stay open on the counter while you cook.
Thick pages, and a cover that survives what a kitchen does to a book. Stained and open on a Tuesday night.
Smooth to the hand. Elegant, durable, and it ages well.
Thick, smooth, built to hold vivid color and survive the kitchen.
Full color throughout. Every recipe, every photo, every page — vivid and rich.
Letter format. Big enough to read while cooking. A statement on any shelf.
Designed by us. Printed for them.
Made to be used.
The price
$199Copies for everyone in the book, from $99 each. Shipping included.
Nothing to pay until it goes to press.
Full pricingPeople who got one
This is the most thoughtful gift my partner and I have ever received. The book is beautiful and of great quality, but most of all, it made us feel so appreciated by everyone who sent a recipe. The Small Plates team was amazing, thank you!
When we opened the book I cried so much haha… The people we love most giving us a little piece of themselves, of their kitchens, of their stories. What an enormous privilege!! For us this book isn't just recipes, it's having everyone with us in this new chapter, in the most beautiful, everyday way there is.
We did this as an anniversary gift and it was one of the most meaningful things we've done since our wedding. Small Plates and Company gives your family and friends a chance to bring their favorite recipes into your home and you get the meals that matter to the people you love. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a thoughtful gift they'll use all the time.
“Recipe's done! 🥰 What a lovely gift!!!” “Mine's in! I loved this gift!” “Done! What an incredible gift” “Done! ❤️”
AMAZING GIFT!
“It's divine! They're going to love it” “It's incredible!!! Thank you” “No woooow it's incredible!!! 😍” “Thank you for organizing this 🙏”
I loved it! and I'd definitely do this for other people too. It feels like such a thoughtful, meaningful gift.
I loved it. It's so easy to create the recipes, and the final result is incredible.
No. Just the recipe itself. We create every image for your book, and that's what makes it cohesive and beautiful.
Even better. They can send a takeout order they'd die for. A sandwich they get every time. It's not about being a chef, it's about being in the book.
You can see who's missing and write to all of them at once. People want to be part of this.
Guests need about 5 minutes to submit. The whole process, from invites to printed book, takes 4 to 6 weeks.
A gift book is for someone else, and they see nothing until it arrives. A club is a group writing one for itself: members instead of guests, rules instead of an occasion, and it stays open so the next edition can happen.
When the book goes to press, not before. Nothing is charged while your people write it.
United States and Mexico. Your book gets there.
Laura, my sister
Becky, best friend
Tia Lu
Noa, my daughter
Marina, college roommate
Don Chava, my dad
