Ingredients lists and basic instructions ("place potatoes in boiling water") are not copyrightable. Only the additional text is copyrightable. This has long bee

Ingredients lists and basic instructions ("place potatoes in boiling water") are not copyrightable. Only the additional text is copyrightable. This has long been a 'problem' for cookbook writers and chefs. Unlike cookbooks, blogs have no particular constraints on how much text they can add, and as pointed out here, perverse incentives to add lots of extraneous material.