Are recipes copyrighted? And what if you modify them? The question dogs the blogosphere again.

Bittman’s no-knead recipe is no longer available on the NY Times website without paying for it. You all have been writing such great things about it. Would someone mind posting it? Thanks! Laura

When can creativity be copywrited? Food & Wine digs into the controversy over avant-garde chefs stealing recipes.

would go their for dinner in the late 50’s early 60’s. I was born and raised in Walnut Creek and my two older brothers attended Las Lomas HS directly accross the street from the restaurant. I’m now in search of...

The oyster bar–lobster bar fracas heats up.

Check out the article on the front page of today’s Wall St. Journal about a new fast food chain in China whose specialty is baked pig’s head. It’s the new rage there and the recipe has been patented. (It’s...

about 1 cup of fresh fruit, a massive amount (22 ounces) of crushed ice, and a yet unknown white liquid. I was told that this “paste” was their patented smoothie mix. Does anybody here work for Surf City or would...

Why would she discuss with Jamie and Radhika? There’s no patent on recipes.

No, and my patented out-of-this-world space-age Moon Waffle is an original recipe as well. Seriously, just thought I’d ask if anyone had tried this.

I would usually post this under the Recipes section, but I want a discussion about the idea of it rather than, "Go try it right now!" So one day a few years back I was hungry. I toasted a plain Eggo waffle, then put some...

://www.freshpatents.com/Process-for-preparing-aged-garlic-dt20070208ptan20070031574.php?type=description It appears to be a patent for the preparation of the aforementioned item. I read the entire length of it and decided that it...

, and patented many inventions. In some circles, it is theorized that because Shakers were celibate, their creativity grew out of sublimation. They embraced anything that would make their labor more efficient, so as to allow more...

Just made these and got rave reviews. I adapted the recipe a bit from Best American Recipes 2003-2004 (the original was published in Baking in America by Greg Patent). The original recipe was a Pillsbury Bake-Off winner in 1954....

I’m trying to learn (admittedly from a book) some decent vegetarian Indian cooking and I’m finding that most recipes call for ingredients that not only haven’t I ever heard of, but that are patently unavailable...

Actually, unless I am grossly mistaken, recipes are not protected by copyright. The reasoning may be a bit convoluted, but recipes are considered to be useful techniques (which could ultimately be protected by patent, though the...