[shagie]

Recipes themselves can't be copyrighted.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html

    How do I protect my recipe?
    A mere listing of ingredients is not protected under copyright law. However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a collection of recipes as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection. Note that if you have secret ingredients to a recipe that you do not wish to be revealed, you should not submit your recipe for registration, because applications and deposit copies are public records. See Works Not Protected by Copyright (Circular 33) (PDF, 113 KB), section "Names, Titles, Short Phrases."

And thus, you've got the rest of it to have material that can fall under copyright law.

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte... also goes into it.

[amelius]

Cooks and mathematicians are not allowed to make money. For everybody else we have patents.

[jstanley]

But couldn't someone copy out the mere listing of ingredients anyway?

[throwaway81523]

I had heard it's more about SEO. Put some filler on the page to make the article looking enough for the search engine to think it's intereting.

[thih9]

> intereting

Typo, “interesting”; “interneting” also works.

[vasco]

I mean we're talking about people who decided their life's work would be to run a recipe website so we already can't expect that much.

[trick-or-treat]

You don't know how many side projects they have. I had a recipe website at one time along with 50 other things.