Now, if you posted a recipe, you wouldn't be breaking any laws. The forum rules only list this: "By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any content that is obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, copyrighted or otherwise violative of any laws." A recipe is not copyright protected and thus posting would not "violate any laws." The book is only copyright protected as to how it is laid out, any unique photos or drawings, or any original ideas of the writer. The individual recipes are not. As a side note: One of the closest gaurded recipes is Coca Cola. Only a handful of people have access to the recipe because if it ever got out, there would be nothing Coca Cola could do about it (well, unless a competitor committed corporate espionage and started producing it- then they could sue under a trade secret theory). But say Coca Cola made a book and published their recipe. The book would be copyright protected, but not the recipe. For more info see this link from the U.S. government: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
