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Every recipe and technique guide on The Umami Post is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
That means:
- Cook it. Obviously. That's what recipes are for.
- Copy it. Print it, save it, paste it into your personal recipe binder, hand it to your kid in college.
- Adapt it. Substitute, scale, rewrite for your kitchen. Publish your adaptation.
- Republish it. Put it in a cookbook, a magazine, a newsletter, a blog post. Commercial use is fine.
You agree to two short things in exchange:
- Attribution. Credit the original cook by name and link back to the recipe on theumamipost.com. A line like “Adapted from The Umami Post.” is ideal.
- ShareAlike. Your adaptation gets licensed the same way. If you publish a remix of one of our recipes, your version is also CC BY-SA 4.0. Other cooks can adapt your version too. That's how the community grows.
Editorial articles, reviews, food journalism
Articles, deep dives, reviews, profiles, and other editorial work are copyright the individual author. They are not under a Creative Commons license by default.
If you'd like to republish, quote at length, translate, or anthologize an article, contact the author directly through their contributor page or via our contact form and we'll connect you. Quoting a few sentences with attribution and a link is fair use and doesn't need permission.
Photography
Photography is copyright the photographer. Most contributor recipes ship with photos the cook took themselves; those photos are theirs. Contact the contributor through our forms if you want to license a specific image.
Webmentions welcome
If your site can send webmentions, we'd love to hear from you. When you publish your remix or response, your site can POST to our endpoint and the mention shows up on the canonical recipe page. This is how the decentralized web keeps track of itself.
Other uses
Need to use Umami Post content in a way that isn't covered above -- a paid product, a broadcast, a consulting deliverable, an educational anthology, a translation? Tell us what you have in mind and we'll work it out.