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Oooohhhh…. cookbook drama!
If you thought that was an oxymoron, think again: Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, is being accused of “borrowing” another woman’s recipes for her best-selling book, Deceptively Delicious. The operative word being “deceptive,” apparently.
Jessica suggests putting spinach in brownies, which readers have pointed out is a copy- cat recipe of chef mogul Missy Chase Lapine’s. According to the NYDN, they both also have recipes for mashed potatoes with hidden cauliflower, grilled cheese with secret sweet potatoes, green eggs made with pureed baby spinach, and carrot-laced tacos.
Lapine’s publisher responded to media inquiries by not really responding with: “I won’t be able to comment until next week.”
I can’t believe anyone would want to take credit for these recipes. “Secret” sweet potatoes? Spinach brownies? There’s only one green “ingredient” I like in my brownies, and it ain’t spinach. Now THAT’s a cookbook I would actually buy. Magic mushroom ravioli. Pot hot chocolate. Cannabis cookies. Stir fry bud.
I smell a million-dollar idea for Woody Harrelson! Well, I smell… something.
Puh-lease! She’s probably making these recipes so long, she doesn’t even remember where she first got the tip. I done think a celeb (or celeb wife) would knowingly plagiarize. There’s too many people waiting to catch you messing up. That’s what news thrives on these days. (Say THAT 3 times fast!)
I hope they meet privately, and settle the matter between them, ($$$) rather than have some public duel about whose idea Spinach in the brownies really is.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am - ReplyP.S. Seinfeld’s wife looks so sweet, it’s hard to believe this is the same woman who jilted her 1st hubby!
October 19th, 2007 at 11:59 am - Replyi’ll pass on the spinach brownies, but i could go for some of that stir fry bud for lunch.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:00 pm - ReplyThe reason why I think there MAY be some plaguerism (sp?) going on is this:
Jessica:
While I was cooking dinner, pureeing butternut squash for the baby and making mac and cheese for the rest of us, I had the crazy idea of stirring a little of the puree into the macaroni. … The colors matched -you couldn’t really see the squash in there -and the texture was perfect.”
Other author:
“If you want to hide something in macaroni and cheese, you have to match the color of the dish. You could easily introduce white bean puree in the mac and cheese.”
Seems A TAD TOO COINCIDENTAL for me. But hell, who knows? Maybe she DID just think of it on her own. Either way it’s all pretty funny…
October 19th, 2007 at 2:27 pm - ReplyEvidently, it wasn’t enough to snag a jillonaire (never mind that she was married to a brand new
husband at the time)and breed.
Gotta find some way to raise money to send those
kids to school, and validate herself as a productive member of society.
Caption: “I am NOT a golddigger. I, too, work for a living. See how hard I worked on this cookbook. Plus, Oprah (another jillonaire) likes me!”
Ick.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm - ReplyDeceiving your kids - great way to build their trust.
There does appear to be something fishy about Jessica’s cookbook, according to celebitchy:
October 19th, 2007 at 7:07 pm - Replyhttp://www.celebitchy.com/6800/jessica_seinfeld_busted_plaguarizing_recipes_from_earlier_cookbook/
I’d rather have pumpkin pie…if I MUST have a veggie dessert.
Is pumpkin a vegetable or a fruit? Me thinks it’s a fruit since it has seeds inside.
October 19th, 2007 at 8:23 pm - ReplyOne can only hope her ideas are original being that she promoted her book on “Oprah”. Remember James Frey……..
October 20th, 2007 at 4:46 am - Replymaybe she sent the 20 pairs of manolo’s to oprah as a hush bribe.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:41 am - ReplyI am a long time macaroni and cheese eater and proud of it. You can’t tell me that putting squash instead of the cheese or with the cheese wouldn’t make it taste different or better. I doubt that the brownies would taste as good as the regular brownies either.
October 20th, 2007 at 8:23 am - ReplyIf her last name wasn’t Seinfeld, no one would give a rat’s a$$ about her book.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:53 am - ReplyToo true, Jo Jo!
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 am - Reply