can you open a restaurant and use recipes from a published cook book and charge for the food?

would that be considered plagiarism or copyright infringement if you just used the recipes from the cook book instead of figuring them out on your own?
i mean, I wouldn’t take credit for them or anything, claiming they’re my recipes.
but would I have to give credit to the cook who wrote the cookbook, or could I just serve them in my restaurant and charge for them?

The copyright infringement applies to the way the instructions are worded, not on the ingredients or the recipe itself. So unless you are re-writing the instructions to a recipe, you shouldn’t have much to worry about.

here is the law directly relating to it:

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

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