Post #116795 by finkdaddy on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 7:31 AM

I'm not talking about marketing a recipe as my own, I just mean using one that is already published.

I certainly don't think that if I mix 1 1\2 oz vodka with orange juice and call it a Screwdriver that I would be in any trouble. That same drink must be in a million books. So why would it be different for any other recipe that is published in a recipe book?

If I baked breaded chicken stuffed with ham and swiss cheese and called it Chicken Cordon Bleu it shouldn't cause any trouble right? I don't want to steal the KFC recipe, I just want to make chicken.

So if I use this Mai Tai recipe (found in the book 'Bartending for Dummies'),

1/2oz. rose's lime juice
1/2oz. orange curacao
1/4oz. orgeat syrup
1/4oz. rock candy syrup
3/4oz. light rum
1/4oz. 151 rum

and call it a Mai Tai, is that a problem? Maybe if I called it the Finkdaddy people might get upset.

(for the record, I don't like that recipe, it's just the first one I found in my desk)

At what point does one cross over into the territory of unethical or illegal?