Tuesday 31 July 2007

researching.

I've been a little concerned about to what extent I'm infringing copyright by posting semi-tweaked recipes here. Not at all it turns out! It seems that copyright when applied to recipes does not cover lists of ingredients or even method, but only the creativity with which these are described. So, if you put it in your own words, you're ok! Of course, it's still good manners to acknowledge the source, and I don't want to rip anyone off, but I'm really glad about this, because this blog is turning out to be quite a useful resource (to me at least) : I keep coming back here when I want to remake a recipe (or I've lost it) because it's so helpful to refer to my own experiences of coooking something.

While looking all this up, I read an article where the author (a food writer) said that he'd always found restaurant chefs to be (on the whole) extraordinarily willing to share their recipes. I've got a few favourite dishes around the place that I LOVE and I've been dreading the thought of how much I'll miss them when I go overseas. Maybe this will give me the guts to try asking for the recipes...

3 comments:

Hannah said...

Ooh you're going overseas! To Switzerland!? When? How excitement!

m∃ said...

Um, probably... I got into Geneva but can't go (yet) because i don't speak French (yet), so I'm planning to move to France in November and do a course and hang out with Rosie and get a job and then go to Switzerland in September next year. Yes, that's the plan. It's looking good, but lord knows my plans of this kind have fallen through before...

Margie said...

that's good news about the recipes.

i discovered this morning that there is yet something else i left at norwood. the recipe book containing the chicken recipe i was planning to make for saturday.

good thing molly has it and a phone and i can take dictation...