Should restaurants give out recipes?

[buckytom]

i would have paid $50k for the marinade used on jimmy armstrong's pork chops, they were that good...

 

[CWS4322]

Well--did you offer that amount?

 

[CWS4322]

Those who own copyrights, tend to be very protective of them...ditto for people who are listed on a patent.

 

[Bolas De Fraile]

Mario Botali said of this restaurant that he felt like burning his own restaurant down and moving to London to work for the master.
I plucked up courage to eat there 2 yrs ago with my offal loving kid brother.
Ask for a recipe I did not want to read the bloody menu, John ordered and it was amazing.
I will eat most things but brains ect are not my bag. I ate everything he ordered with sunglasses on.http://www.stjohnrestaurant.com

 

[GB]

When I worked in the tourism industry (a lifetime ago), I ate at some very nice restaurants. I asked for and received many excellent recipes. I am hesitant to share those recipes even with my dearest friend because I don't know that the recipient will identify the source of the recipe. We all pass recipes around. I recently found a link that I had posted here was actually a recipe that had originally appeared in a magazine. The website where I stumbled across the recipe did not credit the magazine. That's a violation of copyright. Protecting copyright has become a challenge because of the Internet. Just because it is on the Internet, doesn't mean that someone doesn't own the copyright. If the owner (in this case, a magazine) has it on the Internet, a link provided rather than reproducing the recipe unless one receives expressed permission to do so. In this particular case, the blogger even used the photo of the dish that was in the magazine, so the photographer's copyright is also violated (unless the magazine bought the rights). In Canada, expressed permission can only be in writing (not email, it must be in writing) and must be requested each and every time one wishes to reproduce the material that is protected by copyright. There is a requirement to acknowledge that the work is reproduced with expressed permission. I am not a lawyer, but I know this from a copyright issue for which I needed legal assistance to stop someone from violating a copyright I own. In Canada, the party that violates the copyright can be subjected to a $50K fine.

In the US the fine can be double that ($100,000). However something interesting to note of recipe copyrights is that a list of ingredients can not be copyrighted. The instructions are the only thing that can be protected. If you write the recipe out in your own words and post it then you are in compliance. Of course there is no definition for what constitutes your own words so in the end it would be up to a judge to decide if you changed the wording enough.

 

[CWS4322]

With respect to the recipe I mentioned, it is exactly the same as what appears on the magazine's web site, except it doesn't include the credits for the person who created the recipe or the photographer (and obviously, neglects to include the magazine's copyright information). A person could probably work full-time for publishing houses just searching the web for copyright violation instances...

 

[babetoo]

while in Memphis , Tenn on a visit we ate at the café' in a large hospital. mom was in there. had a dish called scalloped pineapple. i asked the head guy for the recipe. he very kindly did and even scaled it down for eight serving. i still make. very rarely do i ask anything more than what is in it.