In what has essentially become the Watergate of the Aussie cooking scene, the plagiarism scandal between Brooke Bellamy and RecipeTin Eats has now roped in another famous chef in the form of Martha Stewart.
That’s right, the domestic Goddess and friend of Snoop Dogg has offered her two cents on the debacle, weeks after RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi publicly accused Bellamy of copying two of her recipes in her popular new cookbook, Bake with Brooki.
Stewart joined the fray during a recent headlining appearance as part of Vivid in Sydney, when she was asked whether any of her own recipes had been stolen (per Hello! Magazine).
“Probably”, she told host Benjamin Law at the ICC Theatre, “but I have so many recipes.”
Stewart went on to recall the “thousands of recipes” she has collated every year as part of her magazine Martha Stewart Living, saying the sheer volume makes it “hard to develop a recipe without having a repertoire behind that recipe”.
“I don’t think too many recipes are owned by anybody,” she added.
“They are handed down. They are used and changed, and if you print somebody else’s recipe word for word in your own cookbook then that might be plagiarism.”
While she seemed to back Maehashi’s original claims that word for word copying might constitute plagiarism, Stewart also admitted that it’s “very hard to prove who actually came up with that particular recipe”.
“So unless they are word for word, you can’t say they’re yours.”
While you’d think Stewart’s status as the queen of TV cooking might put the kibosh on the whole ordeal, it’s unlikely this scandal will die down anytime soon.
Just last week, Bellamy broke her social media silence with a new video addressing the situation, and before that, Maehashi bizarrely found herself name-checked in the Erin Patterson beef wellington saga.
It all stems from public allegations levelled against Bellamy by Maehashi last month, which saw the latter accuse the baking influencer of stealing her recipes for caramel slice and baklava, as well as copying the recipes of other cooks.
“To me, the similarities between the recipes in question are far too specific and detailed to be dismissed as coincidence,” Maehashi wrote.
With all this talk of celebrity chefs, I’m eagerly awaiting Nigella Lawson’s (likely adjective-filled) response.
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