Where do recipes come from? Surely everyone’s just stealing each other’s recipes and the most arrogant people are compiling it all into cookbooks and pretending they invented it?
This is actually why they include the personal anecdote. Supposedly it’s easier to copyright a recipe when some sort of creative writing is attached. Because the bare recipe isn’t creative or unique enough to be considered copyrightable.
Same way there is so many songs when we have just 12 basic musical notes. There are only a few techniques and ratios, but minor adjustments can make a difference.
Alton Brown has another great metaphor. Cooking is like driving to a destination. A recipe is like turn-by-turn directions. But there are multiple ways to get places. Good cooks like good navigators just use a map.
I have a follow-up question.
Where do recipes come from? Surely everyone’s just stealing each other’s recipes and the most arrogant people are compiling it all into cookbooks and pretending they invented it?
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You mentioned all my favs
Edit: also as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the reason is copyright and not seo, though I’m unsure if that helps seo too
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This is actually why they include the personal anecdote. Supposedly it’s easier to copyright a recipe when some sort of creative writing is attached. Because the bare recipe isn’t creative or unique enough to be considered copyrightable.
Same way there is so many songs when we have just 12 basic musical notes. There are only a few techniques and ratios, but minor adjustments can make a difference.
Alton Brown has another great metaphor. Cooking is like driving to a destination. A recipe is like turn-by-turn directions. But there are multiple ways to get places. Good cooks like good navigators just use a map.
Usually it’s just variants of previously made things. But yeah some could be just word for word copies.
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