A cookbook controversy has erupted between two popular bestselling Australian authors. Nagi Maehashi has accused Brooke Bellamy of plagiarising two of her recipes, but the claim has been rejected.
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00:00Brooke Bellamy is a social media sensation.
00:05Last year, the Brookie Bakehouse owner launched her popular cookbook,
00:09but a firestorm of controversy has broken out in the kitchen.
00:13After best-selling cook Nagi Maharshi, founder of recipe Tin Eats,
00:18accused Miss Bellamy of copying her caramel slice and baklava recipes.
00:24Writing on social media,
00:26profiting from plagiarised recipes is unethical
00:30and it's a slap in the face to every author who puts in the hard work.
00:34Plagiarism is more of an ethical or a moral claim
00:38that sort of says, hey, you used something of mine
00:41or copied something of mine and you didn't acknowledge me.
00:44Brooke Bellamy has rejected the allegations,
00:47saying she has been creating her recipes since 2016.
00:52She's also offered to remove the two recipes from future reprints of her cookbook.
00:58The kitchen clash has sparked debate.
01:01So I really make the recipe up from scratch and make it my own.
01:05I think that's important because there's so many recipes
01:08that have been featured over and over again out there.
01:11For me, it's important to do something different.
01:13The idea of plagiarising a particular recipe just seems a bit ludicrous to me.
01:17I'm on both sides.
01:18Rachel Stewart, ABC News, Brisbane.
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01:25It's interesting to see a lot about why I'm not trying to think about
01:27people's problem.
01:28I think that almost there's a place to do.
01:30But I think that a lot of people have been working on top of at least
01:32at the top of the top of the top of the top of the top of the top.
01:34I think that's the way I read this.
01:35I think that maybe that's the thing.
01:36I'm really desperate.
01:38I think it's incredibly helpful.
01:40So I think that it's important to do something different.
01:43I think that I'm ready to do something different.