Comments on: Chefs Speak: Who Owns a Recipe?

By: Ashley Morgan

Ashley Morgan — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:19:48 +0000

This is cool and I love to cook even with my mom, Cooking is something that I like to do when I am at home doing nothing at all and I sometimes see cooking shows on tv and I love what they make. Someday I going to be a good cook just like I see on tv and othere places as well.

By: Sam Sotiropoulos

Sam Sotiropoulos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:42:19 +0000

Great video, I agree completely. Thanks for posting this!

By: Rose-Bartlett

Rose-Bartlett — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:58:45 +0000

@savorytv, @ sweetsfoods TX. Who Owns A Recipe? Chefs’ Speak Out. http://tinyurl.com/dlerkd

By: Michael Natkin

Michael Natkin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:34:13 +0000

I’m with all of you, and I make a firm practice of it on Herbivoracious.com, to give credit if anyone else has inspired a recipe, even tangentially. I’ve actually had the opposite experience of inventing a pretty cool dish, and mentioning it in email to a well known chef, only to have it appear on his blog with no attribution, before I’d even had a chance to publish it myself. That was definitely an eye opener to me.

By: Savory Tv

Savory Tv — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:40:06 +0000

@Debo Hobo, @ Jessie, @HoneyB, I think we are all on the same page here! Taking someone’s exact recipes, or images for that matter, is unethical, and it’s a bit disheveling to think that respected professionals do this at times…

@Average Betty, “Food Hacking” is a great term! Great example with the PBJ as well

@Tiffany, @Gera, it is a fine line isn’t it?

Happy Friday the 13th everyone, have a great weekend!

By: Gera @ SweetsFoods

Gera @ SweetsFoods — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:27:34 +0000

I think if you take a recipe from other site you must give the credit. The only cases should be a “copyright” are in factories/restaurant secret-recipes

Anyway, some months ago I found a food blogger that had a big problem with that… I don’t remember the name but she had to take out the recipe from her site…

Great theme and video Heidi!

By: averagebetty

averagebetty — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:25:54 +0000

Going out to a restaurant and coming home to try and recreate the dish you had is what I call “food hacking.” Similar to how a computer programer figures out how to make code work. All cooks/chefs do it… it’s because we love food. Giving credit for “inspiration” is great

I heard another take on this argument; that you can’t “own” a recipe. The value lies in the presentation of the recipe. Say for example, a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich can be made by different people the same way but how you choose to describe how to make your PBJ makes it your original recipe.

Great topic. Great video!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:22:29 +0000

What a great interview! It’s very interesting to hear the perspective from a professional chef. Over the past few months, I have seen many bloggers write about their struggle of someone using their recipe and slightly modifying it or bloggers themselves making modifications to a recipe published in a magazine. It’s a very thin line, and I think that it was great where Andrew Carmellini left off, give credit where credit is do. It’s the honest thing to do. Thanks for the video,and keep them coming!

By: HoneyB

HoneyB — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:24:10 +0000

I definitely believe credit should be given where credit is due!

By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:29:57 +0000

I do not think we own recipes because we all have our own tastes and tend to tweak recipes. However, I strongly believe that when we do make something and we happened to follow the recipe to the exact “t” then we must give the creator credit!