[germanjoey]

Is this the reason why top recipe results always contain the poster's entire life story before they ever show a list of ingredients?

[graeme]

That plus you can’t copyright a recipe but can copyright a story. So it thwarts scrapers.

[ihaveajob]

This. I keep telling my wife how much I hate recipe websites. There has to be a better way! And yet, you're probably right that this is the reason. It's insane how much they have favored this anti-pattern.