Some things are meant to hold.

My father knew how to tie almost anything down.

My dad, Rick — "Ricky" to the people who loved him — spent his career as a U.S. Navy Master Chief Diver. He kept a board of knots, nearly every kind he'd learned to tie over the years. A knot only does its job if it holds — through weather, through time, through being pulled on hard.

That's the idea behind this. A handwritten recipe, a note, anything written in someone's actual hand — once it's gone, it's gone for good. This is my attempt to tie a few of those things down so they don't have to be.

Triana