Post Punk Kitchen Forum

Don't know if anyone has asked yet. What is the etiquette involved with posting recipes on a blog. If I make a recipe from a book, is it ok to post the recipe as long as I give credit to the author? What if I have altered a recipe? Could I post my recipe (although I would still like to give due credit to the original).
I would appreciate your thoughts on this. I really don't want to cause any problems or peas anyone off.

I don't know if there's any legal answer to this, but I personally won't post any recipes that aren't mine, unless I've made extensive changes to a published one. I will link to a recipe if I got it online, or say what book I got the recipe from, but I won't post the actual recipe.

Most people (like Isa) are cool with it if you give credit. I know the lady who wrote the uncheese book is not cool with it and will find you and bisque you out.

I'd just email the author and ask if it's okay. I know some aren't okay with it, but a lot are.

if you changed the amt of the salt in the recipe it is not ok and even if you changed around some stuff and added some extra things it is iffy. Some authors would behave quite salty over that. If you adapted a recipe say it was adapted from x book or if the recipe is online link to it but do not post the content on your blog. Some authors are accessible and maybe it will be a good idea to ask them if u can reprint their recipe on the blog. Before you get yourself in hot water try to stick to posting your own content on your blog that is the best advice I can give you. I would be upset if someone posted the contents of my book on their blog without my permission or my publisher, but for adapting a recipe or something and posting it on your blog I would be OK with that once the person says it was adapted from x book. The uncheese cookbook author is not messing around lol.

something is going on on this forum i did not post that is funny at the end of my post. I am looking at it but that is funny is not in my edits
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it's a filter. when you type the acronym for laugh out loud it gets changed to that's very funny because we are jerks.

I usually just say the cookbook it's from and let people find it themselves. If I find it online, I'll just link to it. I only post it if I made significant changes and I'll still link to the original.

I wondered about this too, I've erred on the side of caution and tried not to post any recipes that weren't mine unless I've changed it significantly or just made it up myself.

good question.

if i've heavily modified something, then i will say this is heavily modified and give the recipe. otherwise, i search on google to see if some other jerk has already uploaded it and link to that.

xo
kittee

I don't think it's fair to post an entire recipe. Chefs don't earn enough as it is, let alone vegan chefs! They need people to buy the book.

From what I've heard, the recipe itself is copyrighted, but the ingredients are not. So the ingredients are fair game. If you alter quite a bit of it, say "inspired by" and then post your new recipe (which should probably be 50% different).

I would never type out a recipe unless I had written permission from the author. If I alter it a bit I would say "I used the recipe from xxxx but used green beans instead of peas". If I alter it a lot I would say "I got the idea of this from XXXX but I altered it a lot and here's what I did".

I work a lot within copyright and lots of it is a grey area so the question I usually ask myself is "Is this fair?" "Who would lose out if people used this recipe instead of buying the book".

I would never post a recipe unless it was mine. If it was already on the internet then I would link to the place I got it from and if it was out of a cook book then I will name and link the cook book.
It's just being nice.

It depends - if I can find this recipe somewhere online I post it since it's available for everyone already also when I modify recipe a lot or I'm just inspired and changes in original recipe are crucial for the dish if not I'm not posting. And always remember about credits.

I don't think it's cool to post recipes from books unless you have definite permission from the author. If I make something using a book I'll say "I used the recipe in Cookbook X, but I added an extra Y and cooked it for ten minutes longer" or something. I'll usually also post a photo of the book and link to it on Amazon or the author's website. If I make a recipe from somewhere online I'll link to it but won't put the whole recipe in my post.

The recipe language is only protected by copyright if it's something creative. You can't copyright "mix everything together, pour into a muffin tin and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes." But just because something isn't protected by copyright doesn't mean it's not a jerk thing to do to republish the recipe.

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This.

Except for when I'm being creative and doing something like throwing three or four recipes together, leaving out half the ingredients and subbing/modifying the rest with whatever comes to mind. In the end I wouldn't recognize any of the original recipes or know to whom I should give credit, apart from my own ingenuity - or kitchen fail. Depends.

I won't repost recipes & only link if I can find it on the author's site, Google Books or Amazon. That's more laziness than etiquette. If I veganized it, it's mine.

Thanks for all the great advice everyone!

I would never have thought about it. I actually have some recipes I'm planning to post this month, I was just planning to credit the book and author.
I heard years ago about the uncheese woman being kind of mean if you posted her recipes and I have to say it turned me off to buying her books and I still haven't bought any. Shoot, you can find almost anything through google books or amazon it seems. I wouldn't want anyone posting my entire book (hello google books and amazon) but a recipe here or there seems ok to me. You can go to the library and copy a whole book or write a recipe down at a bookstore if you wanted to. If I want to support an author, I'm gonna pony up and buy the damn book already.

I don't post recipes that aren't mine unless they're PPK recipes, since Isa once said on the old forum that she was okay with it. Even then, I just try to link to someone else's reproduction, mostly because I'm too lazy to transcribe recipes from books.

I would never type a whole recipe out of a book, because i'm lazy.

Yes. It makes more sense to have your recipes online. Otherwise, how would I know if I'm going to like it? I have all of Isa's books because the recipes are online and I got to try them, so I know they're fantastic.

Yeah when someone asks me to send them a recipe, I insist they sent their mailing address so I can just photocopy it.