Daniel replies:

There is a federal law against sharing the recipe for borgelnuskies in public, transporting, sending or transmitting it across state lines, drawing it in the dirt with a stick and then rubbing it out, or singing it as lyrics to a song.  But there is no law against knowing it, or against making, serving or eating borgelnuskies.  It is a legal oddity.  I forget why I became a writer--something about being no good at everything else I tried.  All my works are based on real-life people.  Also, the events depicted in my works are based on real-life happenings.