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Article: Did food network chef plagiarize her recipes?
Thoughts? I have never seen her show or recipes, so I have no idea how similar they are to other recipes.
Re: Article: Did food network chef plagiarize her recipes?
This is the article, for those that don't want to click through:
A pastry chef is feeling more heat in the kitchen than usual in light of allegations that the desserts on her Food Network show were actually based on recipes from other celebrity chefs.
Sources tell the New York Post that Anne Thornton, host of ?Dessert First,? was fired when execs discovered similarities between her recipes and those of Martha Stewart and ?Barefoot Contessa? Ina Garten.
?The network was very concerned because many of her recipes were close ? with only a few minor edits ? to other chefs? recipes,? an unnamed source told the Post, adding, ?The network discovered the similarities during the second season of the show.?
But a Food Network spokeswoman denied that plagiarism was an issue in the cancellation of Thornton?s show, which began in October 2010. "It's very unfortunate that information is misrepresented," she told TODAY.com. "Anne Thornton's 'Dessert First' was not renewed for a third season based on the show's performance."
The paper cites Thornton?s Luscious Lemon Squares, which it says is reminiscent of a 1999 Ina Garten recipe, and her Mascarpone-Stuffed French toast, which is allegedly similar to one published in the book ?The Essence of Chocolate.?
Thornton, who has appeared on TODAY for Fourth of July and Halloween sweet treats segments, told the Post that this was the first she?s heard of these allegations.
There's only one time a year you can serve a drop-dead dessert and get away with it! Anne Thornton shows TODAY's Ann Curry how to make a milk chocolate graveyard cake for your Halloween party.
?This is all news to me,? she said. ?I get inspiration from all my heroes. You take what you learn from them and then you riff on that. As for lemon squares, there?s only so many ways you can make them, so of course there will be similarities.?
It's hard to say. With something as basic as lemon squares or stuffed french toast, there is a good chance that you'll be able to find a similar recipe somewhere if you try hard enough. There is only so many ways to make something.
But If she DID just rip off these recipes, than that sucks. It wouldn't have hurt her at all to say that the recipe was inspired by Martha or Ina. And she couldn't have thought that no one would notice.
Ditto. The recipes she supposedly plagiarized are rather basic and most versions would have basically the same ingredients. It would be incredibly sad (and stupid) if she just stole those recipes though.