“[The] recipes’ directions for preparing the assorted dishes fall squarely within the class of subject matter specifically excluded from copyright protection by 17 U.S.C. § 102(b).”
The parent is correct and you are wrong, but they are being downvoted anyway which I expect to to happen to me as well.
“Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients….. Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.”[0]
Clearly a cooking show or in my opinion a video showing the preparation of a dish in context and with commentary is protectable.
But all of the opinion on the internet matters about as much as wind striking the face of a mountain compared to an actual litigation.
“[The] recipes’ directions for preparing the assorted dishes fall squarely within the class of subject matter specifically excluded from copyright protection by 17 U.S.C. § 102(b).”
From : http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/publications_v_meredith.htm