The recipes on this site are intended for the use and enjoyment of people who relish good food and like cooking with walnuts and with walnut oil. Some of the recipes were given to us by family members, friends and aquaintances. Some have appeared in magazines, cookbooks, television and on the internet. There are recipes, like the famous Waldorf Salad, which have been in the public domain for many years. A few recipes were even invented or adapted specifically for this site by some particularly creative walnut enthusiasts. And this is just the starting point - hopefully there will be many good recipes sent to us by visitors to this site.

However, it is unclear to us as to what extent anyone can own a recipe and legitimately prevent its publication by others as long as proper acknowledgement of the recipe's source is made. It is also unclear at what stage a recipe that has been modified ceases to be the original. Will the previous publisher of the recipe be more offended by the modifications or by the lack of acknowledgement?

Good cooking is, after all, an organic mixture of art, science, attitude, tradition, experimentation, experience, skill, the quality of the ingredients and even luck; each individual dish is unique and yet stamped by the history of every variation before it.

So while it is certainly our intention to acknowledge the source of a recipe where we can, as well as its generous contributor, in some cases this is easy but in others impossible. If you come across a recipe in this collection that you believe merits acknowledgement please let us know. If you find a recipe you wish to improve, alter or have removed please let us know also.

Our business is growing and processing walnuts. We hope you will buy our walnut products. The recipes are free!