Is it OK to reverse engineer the recipes for restaurant dishes so you can make them at home?
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Another aspect is personal experience. Eating beignets and chicory coffee at Cafe du Monde is a holistic experience. Smoked meat at Schwartz's. A Taqueria Cancun burrito. Letting the food be as special and rare as your visits to those restaurants can enhance the whole experience. Extracting the food from the context makes both less precious.
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@Perrin42 it is!
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@evan I think the reason everyone is so hung up on copyright is that most (all?) ethical systems have no objection to copying. So for most people, the reason copying might be unethical is if it would involve breaking the law.
@mpjgregoire @lizzard @lmorchard "most (all?) ethical systems have no objection to copying"?!? That's not true at all!
Copying another artist's style, someone else's jokes, a friend's hairstyle, a classmate's essay, are all considered in poor taste or even unethical.
In almost any situation where original thinking could be done, copying is considered shoddy and second-rate.
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@evan Considering Schwartz's isn't even real smoked meat anymore (they use an electric smoker) you're getting downright Baudrillardian in this.
@ianrogers did Baudrillard also like Schwartz's?