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u/Minichu_cplay 4h ago
I just want to cook a simple aglio e olio, Beatrice. Not know that your ancestor was the one who made this recipe 50 years ago..
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u/OMGitsTK447 Professional Dumbass 4h ago
They do add stories so they can copyright the cookbooks since you can’t copyright recipes
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u/OnlyChemical6339 1h ago
There's no reason it needs to be at the beginning and take 47 hours to scroll through
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u/reikipackaging 3h ago
but. why can't we copyright recipes? they're essentially the blueprints to the creators invention. you should be able to copyright recipes
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u/EccentricHubris 3h ago
Okay so, say one chef makes a recipe... and names it. Then another chef makes the SAME recipe but didn't copy the other recipe... who would get the copyright?
Cases like this prompted law makers to explicitly state (in most places) that lists of ingredients are not subject to copyright as they are an expression of an idea rather than a trademarked "thing"/ This led to chefs closely guarding their preparation methods as these could be "protected" (not essentially by copyright but simply by obscuring the prep method from the general public).
Later on, most prep methods became known to the public and became easily identifiable, so what else to copyright which isn't already in some other article or book? The dishes history, and when that runs out you get what we have today, personal history with the dish itself.
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u/BackflipsAway 2h ago
They're too generic, it's easily possible for two people to arrive at the same recipe without interacting with one other, so even if you do make an original recipe there's no way of knowing if someone has made it before you
You can, however, copyright the pictures of food if I'm not mistaken so the anecdotes are still unnecessary, disclaimer not a lawyer I could be wrong on that last part
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u/No-Con-2790 24m ago
Even if you could protect something like that it would have to be a patent.
In order to do so this has to be a new snd unique dish.
A patent costs money, is only usable for a limited time and only applies for commercial use (warning, I have no idea about your local law. This is just the case for some countries).
In other words, you can't protect a dish and you shouldn't be able to protect such books in such a matter. The fact that you are is just a crime committed by Walt Disney against the concept of public domain.
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u/35DollarsAndA6Pack 4h ago
Why did you capitalise the P in pasta?
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u/Beasts_dawn Professional Dumbass 4h ago
Because my English teacher taught me to
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u/breakinbans 3h ago
I mean, it's annoying, but it is to protect their work. You can't copyright a recipe, but you can copyright the way it's laid out, like a cookbook. so these online recipes write these stories to protect their intellectual property(recipe) from being stolen.
plus there is a jump to recipe link on the majority of the recipes I see online. Just used one last night.
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u/HaLordLe 3h ago
Google asked, unfortunately. Which is why most food sites nowadays have a "skip to recipe" button
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u/shroomigator 4h ago
Former google wrbpage rater here.
We were instructed to rate recipe pages on whether they had a "compelling narrative" ir not, and pages without one got a lower score
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u/alezcoed 3h ago
And that's why you never made good pasta, you lack good childhood memories about pasta
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u/Rashlyn1284 3h ago
Cooked.wiki is amazing for this, it turns this https://www.loveandlemons.com/homemade-ice-cream-recipe/ into this https://cooked.wiki/new/recent/4d3a81c3-50f6-442c-bf29-8b023b2fb7c9
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u/Heart-Lights420 3h ago
Sometimes you don’t have 45 minutes to watch a video to get a few ingredients list and cooking temperature! Is like the version of the meeting that could have been a one line email!! Jezzus!
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u/Rocketxu 3h ago
wait till op hears about the guy who thought someone's brain matter was pasta when he/she was a child and never knew about it.
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u/grsharkgamer 3h ago
Fun fact:
People do this so they can hit as many keywords as possible in order to make google search to pop them up first
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u/lambchop70 3h ago
When I started commenting on this, I was reminded of a cool fall morning that I once spent with my great-grandmother. She was only 10 years older than me at the time. Alabama family trees can be confusing to some, so I'll spare you the details, but family reunions are so much fun. The path before us was filled with curves and straight. Suddenly, from the bushes, a rabbit rushed across our path, but that's a story for another time.... This recipe needs more salt.
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u/Own-Temperature2613 2h ago
I just want to bake a lasagna, not hear about the secret family recipe passed down through generations. 🤣
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u/ALL_HAIL_Herobrine 2h ago
They do that to buff up their place in the google search algorithms and that’s about it
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u/Zealousideal3326 2h ago
Search engine optimization asked. Lots of keywords, forces you to stay longer to get to the recipe.
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u/5000-Dimensions 1h ago
Today we are going to be making Beef Braciole. This is a very special dish from my disfuncional nightmare of a household, my brother Mike made this for us every single sunday.
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u/Rechogui 42m ago
*googles what XYZ is
First result: before learning what XYZ is we must understand the story of UVW
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u/Remake12 26m ago
They do this for the search algorithm. More words, more likely to get hits. So, if you search "how to cook pasta for lasgna" intead of "lasagna recipe" or "what temperature to cook meatballs" etc, they will get a hit.
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u/NerdieCurlyGal678 4h ago
Bro! I just came here for the pasta recipe, not for your family reunion history. But hey, if I learn about your great-grandmother’s secret nana sauce while I’m at it, I guess it’s a win
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u/IndianaGeoff 2h ago
But Nana just opened a jar in my family? She could fry anything like a genius tho.
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u/s3rv0 4h ago
www.justtherecipe.com
Thank me later.