Won’t share your recipe? That’s just mean!
From
Beverly Mills
| February 25, 2010
In Coffee and Convo
Featured Recipe: Hot Fudge Sauce
It astounds me when someone refuses to share a recipe. 
Here I am, raving about your great brownies or fudge (chocolate causes me to lose all dignity), begging for the secret so this ecstasy doesn’t happen only once in my life.
And then I’ll continue to humiliate myself, promising never to publish it in a cookbook, never to serve it in public, to eat the whole thing alone in the dark.
But your answer is NO. And then my inner child throws a hissy fit: Inconsiderate! Small! Just plain mean!
Really, what could a cook be thinking? Moving to the mall to compete with Mrs. Fields? Your grandmother bestowed this culinary gem on her deathbed?
When someone swoons and asks for a recipe, it’s the ultimate compliment. Pride and friendship are at stake. Maybe I should just move on, and eventually I do. It’s not like there aren’t a gazillion great brownie recipes in the cookbooks on my shelf. But still.
Comments
From Beverly Mills - February 25, 2010
From Mary, via Facebook:
I know someone who would “share” her special recipe but change one small thing about it. How mean is that!?
From Beverly Mills - February 25, 2010
From Greg, via Facebook:
Nope, just ask me what you’d like. I have scores and scores of recipes I’ve cooked over the years that we still enjoy.
From Alicia Ross - February 27, 2010
Mary, that has happened to me several times. I have gotten where I read over it and question the cook if something seems amiss. I just don’t understand that kind of thinking!
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From Samina - February 25, 2010
I agree. I’ve never been turned down for a recipe, but I’ve read articles about people having recipes that they refuse to share. I don’t get that either & for the same reasons you cited above.