rusty@sdcc3.UUCP (Rusty Wright) (11/29/84)
i hate to beat a very dead horse but people shouldn't post recipes out of a cookbook to netnews. it is illegal by the copyright laws. most books have something in the front that say something like no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. i know i'd like to post some recipes that i think are real knock-outs but i feel that i'm depriving the author of some well-earned money by giving a bunch of people that recipe for free. what i do instead is say something like "there is a good recipe for so-and-so in the book whats-its-name by whats-their-name". that way you can either buy the book or borrow it from the library (or friend, etc.). remember that these authors/cooks spend a lot of their time testing and collecting these recipes (i don't know about dinah shore); they deserve whatever little money the publisher tosses their way.
dave@timeinc.UUCP (David Mutterer) (12/01/84)
> i know i'd like to post some recipes that i think are real knock-outs > but i feel that i'm depriving the author of some well-earned money by > giving a bunch of people that recipe for free. But look at it this way.. the author of the book most likely got the recipe from a friend or a relative and is probably not sharing the royalties with them... How many cooks really develop the recipes from scratch.?? -- David Mutterer [vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave "Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated."
rusty@sdcc3.UUCP (Rusty Wright) (12/03/84)
> > i know i'd like to post some recipes that i think are real knock-outs > > but i feel that i'm depriving the author of some well-earned money by > > giving a bunch of people that recipe for free. > > But look at it this way.. the author of the book most likely got the > recipe from a friend or a relative and is probably not sharing the > royalties with them... How many cooks really develop the recipes from > scratch.?? > -- > > David Mutterer > [vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave > > "Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and > do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated." in some cases that may be true, but i'd rather not take that attitude for all authors of cookbooks. i prefer to be an optimist and believe that many of them have worked on those recipes and perfected them before they used them in their cookbook. for example, i just bought the {\it Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book} and they talk about how they perfected their method of making bread entirely from whole wheat/grain flours over many years. and i have other cookbooks where the authors have commented about how it took them many trials to get the recipe ``just right''. your remark is probably more applicable to the dina shore type of cookbooks.
hxe@rayssd.UUCP (12/07/84)
RE: "How many cook really develop their recipes from scratch?"
I do, based on what I have in my kitchen at any given time, what
I think might taste good together, and the fact that I own very
few cookbooks. I have developed a number of totally original
recipes this way. If I someday publish a cookbook, I hope that
people would buy it rather than publish the recipes worldwide,
but I know it's not possible. Remember that cookbooks don't sell
quite as well as, say, Steven King novels, so do what you can for
them.
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--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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