Sommer Collier

Our website, ASpicyPerspective.com, was originally created as a resource for a local cooking class I was teaching 14 years ago.

We posted our class recipes online so that the students could have easy access to them. Yet we realized other people around the country were finding our recipes. It was such a thrill to know we were helping people outside of our community gain confidence in the kitchen. 

Over the last 14 years, we have worked diligently to grow our recipe website into an online resource that features our family favorites, simple recipes for busy parents, clean healthy recipes, and global cuisine we feel should be experienced by all. 

It’s been an honor to hear from people about how certain recipes impacted their families. For instance, we’ve been told (on several occasions) our classic potato salad recipe is the closest thing to their great-grandmother’s secret potato salad recipe, that never never passed on. We’ve helped bring back a flavor and memory they felt they had lost.

We’ve also shared recipes from my husband’s first-generation Hungarian-American grandmother. Her recipes have brought joy and family tradition back to other Hungarian-Americans seeking to deepen their roots and pass down the foods from their ancestors.

We’ve been able to share our daughter’s journey back to health, after battling serious digestive issues for several years. These stories and recipes have helped others who are on the same path to healing.

We believe creating and sharing these recipes impacts families in a positive way. These are straight-from-the-kitchen, human-tested recipes that come from the heart. Each and every recipe is tweaked and fussed over until it is just right. That is something AI cannot replicate. 

Good meals, shared from one family to another, not only bring people together, they create a sense of achievement, ownership, and generosity. 

It is our hope, that in the future human-created content will still be the driving force of the online community. This is the only way to ensure human connection, authenticity, and trust continue to grow and flourish.