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Two things made from the dishes your people are known for. The cookbook: a hardcover written by everyone in your life, for a wedding, a shower, a birthday, a graduation. Each person sends a recipe and a note, and we design, print and ship the book. And Kitchen Tiles: one framed piece for the wall with two to six dishes on it, each one illustrated and signed. Both live in the kitchen. The book gets stained. That's the point.

Usually one person: the maid of honor, the sister, the mom, a friend. You don't need design skills or free time. You share a link and the rest happens on its own. You can also run one for your own occasion.

1. Share your collection link with the people you want in the book: WhatsApp, text, email, whatever you use.
2. Each guest submits a recipe and a note. About five minutes each.
3. Every recipe gets cleaned up as it comes in. You can read and edit all of them from your dashboard.
4. When you're ready, you close the book and pay. A real person reads every page, and we create the images and design the book.
5. The hardcover is at your door 3 to 4 weeks later.

A guest book gets signed once and goes in a box. This one gets opened on a random Tuesday because someone wants the lasagna recipe. Same people, different shelf life.

Starting is free: creating the event, inviting people, collecting recipes, watching them come in. You pay only when you print. One copy is $199. The price per copy drops as your group orders more: $149 each for 2 copies, $129 for 3, $115 for 4, $105 for 5, and $99 each from 6 on. Shipping to one address is included.

At the very end, when you close the book and send it to print. Not before. No deposit, no subscription, no card on file.

Everything except the printed book: the event page, the collection link, and reminders to guests. You collect everything first and decide about printing later.

That's how the price is built. The book is usually a group gift: several people chip in and each keeps a copy. The per-person number you see is exactly what each person puts in. One person checks out; the group settles up however it normally does.

Then you pay nothing. The recipes stay saved in your account in case you change your mind later.

Yes, anytime. Later orders work exactly like the first one: one copy is $199 and the price per copy drops the more you print together, down to $99 each from 6. Separate orders don't combine, so the cheapest copies are the ones the group orders together, before the book closes.

We create them. Guests only send the recipe. Our recipe-to-image technology reads every component of the recipe (the ingredients, the technique, the dish itself) and builds an image as close to the real recipe as possible. It's not 100% perfect and it can miss a detail, but we work to get every image as true to the dish as we can. The images are created after you pay and close the book, not while you collect.

A link arrives in their messages or inbox. From there, two ways: they type the recipe out, or they take a photo of it wherever it lives (the handwritten card, grandma's notebook, the back of an envelope) and upload that. They add a short note, and they're done. About five minutes. No app, no account, no password. It works on any phone, tablet, or computer.

Even better. They can send the takeout order they'd defend with their life, or the sandwich they get every single time. It's not about being a chef. It's about being in the book.

Some won't on the first ask. That's normal. Your dashboard shows who's in, and a couple of clicks sends a reminder to everyone who hasn't. If it's a wedding, you can also import your guest list from a Zola or The Knot export, so nobody gets left out.

Yes, and we set it for you. When you pick the date you want the book in hand, the recipe deadline lands a few weeks earlier, so there's time to print and ship. You'll see the exact date the moment you create your event, and you can move it from your dashboard by changing the book date.

Captains are the people who collect with you: the sister, the cousin, the other bridesmaid, whoever's good at this. You invite them, and each captain sees the same dashboard you do: they can invite people, send reminders, and add or edit recipes right alongside you. Closing the book and paying stays with you. The work spreads out, so it never sits on one person.

At least 25 to print, and 50 are included in the price. Most books land between 30 and 50. If your group goes over, you can add more.

Yes, any language. Abuela's recipe stays in Spanish if that's how she wrote it.

Yes. If someone hands you a recipe at dinner or texts it to you, you can add it for them from your dashboard.

Yes. Every recipe is cleaned up automatically as it comes in (amounts, steps, typos), and you can edit any of them yourself from your dashboard until you close the book. Before anything prints, a real person reads every page.

Because the images don't exist yet. While you collect, each recipe appears as cleaned-up text (plus anything a guest attached, like a photo or a PDF). Our images are created after you pay and send the book to print, so you never see the finished book before it arrives. That's by design: the first time anyone opens it, it's a surprise. Even for you.

Because it has already been cleaned up. One person writes “1 cup,” another “1 cp.” Some use bullets, some one long paragraph. Every recipe is put into the same format as it arrives, so the book reads as one cookbook. The dish, the ingredients and their voice stay theirs. You can always open the original, and if something looks off, edit it or leave it: a real person reads every page before it prints.

A hardcover, 8″ × 10″, printed in full color on satin paper, with a matte cover. Every recipe gets its own page with the contributor's name and note, plus an image we create for it. Built to live on a counter, not a shelf.

Yes. The cover has two lines you can make yours: the line on top (ours reads “Recipes from the people who love,” followed by the name) and the name itself: the couple, the graduate, the birthday person, whoever the book is for. You can also add one photo of your own for the opening pages. You set all of it when you close the book.

We do. Recipes arrive messy: half-remembered amounts, “a pinch of this.” Every one is cleaned up to the same standard as it comes in, a real person reads every page before it prints, and we design the book so it reads like one cookbook instead of fifty different notes.

They'll change a little, on purpose. Every recipe is standardized as it comes in so the book looks consistent, without losing the essence: the dish, the voice, the weird family steps all stay. That's the version you see in your dashboard, and the original is always one tap away.

Because every recipe is formatted to the same standard, and then laid out as a designed page with its image. What's in a recipe stays (the ingredients, the steps, the words); the style is what changes, so all of them match. The text is the cleaned-up version you already saw in your dashboard, read one more time by a real person before it prints.

Not the designed book, no. You see and can edit every recipe as text before you close the book, but the layout and the images are created after you pay. The first time you see the finished book is when it arrives. That's by design: it keeps the surprise, even for the person who organized it.

Expected. Half of home cooking is “until it looks right.” We edit for clarity and keep the voice, and you can review and edit every recipe's text before you close the book. And some recipes just aren't perfect. That's the point of this book.

Both happen. Most books are organized as a gift, by the maid of honor, the mom, the sister, the friend group. Some people make one for their own table. Same book either way.

The shower, the bachelorette, the rehearsal dinner, the graduation lunch, the birthday: any moment where the people are actually in the room. It lands harder when it can get passed around the table.

Give yourself six to eight weeks before the day you want to hand it over. Collecting takes a few weeks (people need a nudge or two), and printing and shipping take 3 to 4 more. Starting earlier never hurts.

Yes. The link goes to the guests, not to the person the book is for. Whether it's a surprise is your call. Plenty of groups keep it quiet until the day they hand it over.

Not yet. Kitchen Tiles is in beta. You can start a piece, bring in your people and build it now, and it stays saved. Ordering opens soon.

One framed piece for the kitchen wall, with one to six dishes on it: one per person. Every dish is illustrated in the same style and signed by the person who sent it, right under their plate.

The dish they're known for, a line about it, and their signature, made with a finger on their phone. A photo if they have one. If not, the illustration is made from the description. No recipe needed.

Three, each in a few shapes. Small ($99): 13¾×9¾ or 13¾×13¾ in (35×25 or 35×35 cm). Medium ($119): 15¾×12¾ or 17¾×13¾ in (40×32 or 45×35 cm). Large ($149): 17¾×17¾ in (45×45 cm). Every one is framed in solid wood, in oak, black or white, with no mat and the wire already on the back.

Yes. The piece builds itself in your dashboard as the dishes come in, illustrations and signatures included. You can change the style, the size, the frame and who goes where until you send it to print.

You pay for a size and the number of copies. Paying opens all 14 styles, and the piece stays open: people can still send dishes and you can keep editing. It prints when you press Print. After paying you can switch to anything that costs the same or less; a smaller size isn't refunded.

They can. Copies ordered together ship to one address for one $16 shipping fee. Anyone else can order their own copy, sent to their door, once the piece prints.

Nobody gets turned away. Extra dishes wait on the bench in your dashboard, and you pick which ones go on the piece.

United States only, for now. Printed and framed in the US, and at your door about two weeks after you press Print.

The cookbook ships to the United States and Mexico. Kitchen Tiles ship to the United States.

Collecting is up to you. Most groups give it a few weeks. Once you close the book and send it to print, it's at your door in 3 to 4 weeks. Kitchen Tiles take about two weeks after you press Print.

For the cookbook, included, always: every order ships to one address and the price you see covers it. Kitchen Tiles ship for $16 per order, however many copies are in it.

Only your group, and the few people on our team who read every page before it prints. The book isn't public, there's no feed, and we don't post anything.

To send their invitation, reminders, and a few notes about the book they're in, like a last call before it closes or a look at their recipe once it's printed. We never sell them, and nobody gets added to a newsletter.

Yes. Write to us and we'll delete the event and all its recipes.

Email team@smallplatesandcompany.com. A person answers.