Why don't you include recipes with your tweaks, Kat. I don't think that the tweaks would have to be all that major to make it yours. And that would be more fun than the originals from others' cookbooks anyway.

Well, and even if you got a recipe from your grandmother doesn't mean SHE didn't get it from a cookbook...my great aunt's sugar cookie recipe matches the one I found on epicurious. I know she was using it long before it was published in Bon Appetit in 1993 (since she was dead by then...) but she likely got it from somewhere, sometime...

Tweaked recipes from other sources are a-ok for this project, IIRC.

libkitty, my tweaks tend to be related to things like, oh, I don't have that ingredient. In other words, they vary with mixed results and therefore anything I'd want to submit would be closer to the actual recipe.

Also, Kat, I'm gonna sleep on this whole copyright issue, but I'm thinking we should probably stay away from recipes from another cookbook, as your PTA did, just to be safe.

Honestly? I really think this is an overreaction. I'll see if I have time to do some research this weekend, or maybe one of our legal types will want to weigh in. But I don't think we have anything to worry about. (Also, just with what we've dug up so far - I think I'd take the position of a magazine/publisher over that of a PTA, generally speaking, as authoritative.)

I know she was using it long before it was published in Bon Appetit in 1993 (since she was dead by then...) but she likely got it from somewhere, sometime...

From the Einsteinian Cat Internet. The Caternet.

I'll see if I have time to do some research this weekend

Thanks Brenda! I know it might seem like an overreaction, but when I did recipes for an online magazine, I was asked not to use anything from a cookbook (which is why, I think, I lasted fewer than 4 editions). Ditto for what my previous school's PTAs did. I guess since we aren't an offiicial non-profit, since it's a fundraiser of sorts, I just worry more.

That, and I know how justifiably sensitive many of the writers on this board are about their own writing. I imagine folks who write recipes probably feel the same.

I imagine folks who write recipes probably feel the same.

Yes, I get this. I'll have to give some extra thought on the family recipes I am considering.

Also, Kat! I don't think I've seen you in Bitches before. Hi - see me waving madly Had to double check where I was.

Major skippage because of school transition. Ugh. We had this great plan that Brendon would take the bus to the big city pool and I would pick him up later. 1st day I stop to wait at pool so I will know for future what time bus gets there. After 45 minute wait (in hot hot hot weather) I get the call that he missed bus and go get him at school. 2nd day I try again and wait 30 minutes before I get the call that the bus he takes sent him in the wrong direction. Like really wrong area. And the bus driver just leaves him at an intersection until I get to pick him up. Drove really fast and picked him up safely. Tomorrow I am picking him up at school after I talk to the powers.

Hope all is well with all. No chance to catch up until the weekend. Behave yourselves.

Hi Laura! I lurk in Bitches but rarely post. However, I know VW reads here and that's why I posted to her in the thread. How are you and your wonderful family?

I wonder if Fay has seen this?