> Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. To attempt to make them copyrightable at least. My understanding is that fundamental recipes themselves

> Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. To attempt to make them copyrightable at least. My understanding is that fundamental recipes themselves as sequences of steps and ingredients are never copyrightable in the US. From having sat around a lot of recipe bloggers though it sounds like the main reason they do the long essays is to try and improve search ranking.