Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!rusty From: rusty@sdcc3.UUCP (Rusty Wright) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: posting recipes from cookbooks Message-ID: <2513@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 22:46:41 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2513 Posted: Sun Dec 2 22:46:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 08:10:48 EST References: <2504@sdcc3.UUCP> <62@timeinc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 26 > > i know i'd like to post some recipes that i think are real knock-outs > > but i feel that i'm depriving the author of some well-earned money by > > giving a bunch of people that recipe for free. > > But look at it this way.. the author of the book most likely got the > recipe from a friend or a relative and is probably not sharing the > royalties with them... How many cooks really develop the recipes from > scratch.?? > -- > > David Mutterer > [vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave > > "Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and > do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated." in some cases that may be true, but i'd rather not take that attitude for all authors of cookbooks. i prefer to be an optimist and believe that many of them have worked on those recipes and perfected them before they used them in their cookbook. for example, i just bought the {\it Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book} and they talk about how they perfected their method of making bread entirely from whole wheat/grain flours over many years. and i have other cookbooks where the authors have commented about how it took them many trials to get the recipe ``just right''. your remark is probably more applicable to the dina shore type of cookbooks.