Comments on: Around the Food Blogs: The Ethics of Recipe Writing, Publishing and Blogging http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Conan http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-198404 Conan Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:45:59 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-198404 Hey all, I came across your site by way of Bing even as searching for a very similar subject, your blog came out, seems like fine. I’ve bookmarked it inside my yahoo bookmark

]]> By: ReaderBuzz http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-174266 ReaderBuzz Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:43:45 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-174266 What a great web log. I spend hours on the net reading blogs, about tons of various subjects. I have to first of all give praise to whoever created your theme and second of all to you for writing what i can only describe as an fabulous article. I honestly believe there is a skill to writing articles that only very few posses and honestly you got it. The combining of demonstrative and upper-class content is by all odds super rare with the astronomic amount of blogs on the cyberspace.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5538 Kevin Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:18:29 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5538 This is another fantastic post Barbara. Thank you for this information as I have never really been clear on this issue. Even so, I err on the side of safety (or really, the side of politeness) and include an “adapted from…” line in my posts. Like you, I stir recipe ingredients and directions around like alphabet soup until they re-align themselves in a manner that I like. I think the only exception to this might be with recipes for baked goods where too much personalizing might really affect texture and density.

When I do not cite a source for a recipe, then it is usually a hybrid of a half dozen recipes that I researched online, or a creature born out of the morass of ideas incubating in my head for great lengths of time. I would actually find it hard in many instances to give a specific credit because I myself have lost track, or the sources are rather numerous. I don’t think I’ve ever wrestled with, “Is this legal?” as much as, “Is this too much peripheral information that nobody cares to read?”

My writing style tends to be light and humorous. I try to avoid overly lengthy posts because I don’t want my readers to get bored. I am also not the good storyteller that you are. Reading your post, and the many comments within, tells me that more people than I previously imagined might find this information valuable. I will play with adding more “story behind the story” and see what comments the posts receive. Thanks to you and to your readers for sharing views on this thought-provoking topic.

Hhhmmmm…that sure was a long comment from somone who claims to keep their posts brief!

]]> By: Ivonne http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5533 Ivonne Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:48:05 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5533 Excellently written, Barbara!

As someone who features one cookbook every month on my blog, and often blogs about several recipes from that particular cookbook, it’s very important that I give credit where credit is due.

Not just because it’s important to be factual or truthful, but also because I feel duty bound to tell people where the idea came from. For me the idea of the food is so important! And it’s only right to share who or what inspired that idea in the first place.

That’s just my two cents …

]]> By: sam http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5532 sam Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:42:38 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/08/08/around-the-food-blogs-the-ethics-of-recipe-writing-publishing-and-blogging/#comment-5532 thats too funny – fairy cake is the only recipe that i have known off by heart without looking in a book for as long as I can remember
4,4,4 & 2,
6,6,6 & 3
or
8,8,8 & 4

are the ratios of
butter, sugar, flour & number of eggs
in a basic sponge recipe that all my life I have used for victoria sponges, butterfly cakes and fairy cakes.

I am with you though – still – if I made an American Pancake – a basic for you I am sure, but I wouldn’t have a clue so no doubt I would find out how to via a blogger and then quote them if I went on to blog my experience.

I just made a recipe which originated from Cream Puffs in Venice and even though I made it 4x before posting, with changes each time, and the final is far removed from the original, ivonne got all the much deserved credit as my inspiration.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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