You can copyright the exact text making up your "how to prepare it" as long as it's considered suitably creative. But that doesn't protect someone from rewritin

You can copyright the exact text making up your "how to prepare it" as long as it's considered suitably creative. But that doesn't protect someone from rewriting your recipe in their own words (or removing all prose and chopping it down to only the necessary factual statements). Cookbooks themselves are generally copyright-able as a compilation work. The individual recipes aren't protected but the compilation as a whole is. > A recipe can also be protected by copyright law if it creatively describes or explains the cooking or baking process connected to the list of ingredients. Even if the description of the recipe is sufficiently creative and copyrightable, the copyright will not cover the recipe’s ingredient list, the underlying process for making the dish, or the resulting dish itself, which are all facts. It will only protect the expression of those facts >https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright/ https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...