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#1 Posted : Friday, January 27, 2012 10:59:43 AM(UTC)

"The idea of Eat Your Books is that we index high quality original recipes from cookbooks, magazines, apps, blogs and websites. If the recipes have just been lifted from another site then we don't want to link to them - we want the original source."


While looking through newly indexed online recipes to see if there were some I would like to add to my bookshelf, I've found recipes from blogs that are attributed to an author, but the blogger has modified the recipe.    I.e. Peanut butter Torte from Dorie Greenspan-but the blogger has changed the recipe.


Does this meet the guideline of original source?

#2 Posted : Friday, January 27, 2012 3:57:07 PM(UTC)

Your quote is taken from an email I sent to you about why we are not carrying recipes from Food.com that have been posted by home cooks as a direct copy from a magazine.  The blogger you reference Annie's Eats did a review of the recipe with photos and detailed the adjustments she made to the recipe.  She also gave Dorie a full credit for the original. We feel this added value for anyone making that recipe, whereas a straight reproduction with no photos or review does not add anything.


We consider Annie's post to be a legitimate review of Dorie's recipe and we also added her post as a review on the original recipe from Dorie's book, Baking.  We are monitoring all online recipes as they get added and we have rejected very few.


I suggested to you in my email that there was no issue with you adding the Food.com recipes as Personal recipes which would then be available in your own searches.  There is now a field for the recipe URL in Personal recipes so it will appear exactly the same as Online recipes.


If any member ever spots a recipe that they think should be attributed to someone other than the blogger, please let us know and we will add the author. Also any member adding Online recipes should always add the original author if known.


We would be interested to know what other EYB members think.  We feel there is a big difference between recipes by bloggers who add a lot of detail about how they made the recipe, plus photos wereas the recipe aggregator sites generally just copy the recipe and nothing more.  On Food.com there are many recipes lifted directly from blogs and websites with no link back to the source and often with no attribution at all.

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