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how to adapt a recipe

Adapting a Recipe Doesn’t Make it Yours

March 17, 2010 by diannejacob 270 Comments

iage of burrito for post on how adapting a recipe doesn't make it yours “My wife was browsing for a good burrito recipe and stumbled on a blog that posted a recipe strikingly similar to one on Food & Wine without giving any credit,” said my friend Ethan in a recent email. He didn’t know that we call it “adapting a recipe.”

“The blogger had modified the recipe a bit,” he continued, “but clearly a lot of the recipe was cut and pasted.”  “I made a comment, as polite as I could, asking the blogger about it, but I suspect she won’t approve it.”

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