If LinkedIn was a recipe site, someone would definitely post this to show how they just powered through it and we should, too.
On that baker grindset.
Need a therapist? Just start a recipe blog.
I’m convinced that the best way to store secrets is in a recipe blog. Credit card numbers, social security number, mother maiden name…
Fun fact: the reason recipe books and blogs share these anecdotes is because you cannot copyright a recipe.
Hi, web dev here -
The other guys correct. For big sites and most smaller ones, it’s because they can squeeze in SEO keywords and ad spots into their BS stories. Some smaller ones might do it cause “everyone else does it”, but the vast majority is just trying to improve recipe rankings, to the point that older recipes I’ve had bookmarked have had stories added to them years after upload.
No, the reason is because it works better for search engine optimization, and also to display ads. A copyright wouldn’t protect the recipe from being stolen from the article.
You can’t copyright the process of a recipe. This means that while recipes are copyrighted, you can get around this by rewriting the recipe using different words.
Who told you that? The recipe is still there for you to just copy. The story doest help prevent it.
I don’t get it
Food and cooking blogs have an intro paragraph where the writer describes how the recipe they are going to talk about is related to their life. This is a joke about trauma dumping and pivoting into a fun idea, this joke being about the vast emotional difference between making a lava cake and holding a loved one as they die.
It’s way more than a paragraph. And it’s stupid SEO bullshit.
I found one specifically with a lava cake recipe. Here’s how much there is before the recipe. And this is relatively short compared to some of what I’ve seen and also more on topic than a lot of them too.
https://www.seriouseats.com/flourless-chocolate-lava-cake-recipe
I’ve got a Firefox extension to remove all this shit. I like a short story about why it’s special, I hate 10 printed pages of SEO.
Recipe Filter is pretty great.
I would legitimately be down with a website that prefaces recipes with dark stories like this, instead of the mundane stuff about how your kid didn’t like to eat anything but then you made this and blah blah blah
