[Sca-cooks] Recipegate

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Wed Apr 16 04:46:56 PDT 2008


In case anyone didn't catch the news this am-- Johnnae

  http://www.sltrib.com/food/ci_8935719

  McCain recipes were plagiarized
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/15/2008 06:12:26 PM MDT

"First there was Watergate. Then Monicagate. Now Recipegate.
    Some of the "McCain Family Recipes" - posted on John McCain's
official presidential Web site and attributed to his wife, Cindy - were
copied word-for-word from the Food Network Web site, according to The
Huffington Post."
    / - Kathy Stephenson/

Another great article on this "Recipe for Scandal"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/politics/16recipes.html?ref=dining

Or this one

"Even if the recipes had been Cindy McCain's own, it's hard to see how
the campaign thought it could win over Middle American voters with
dishes such as crab scampi served over whole-wheat spaghetti.

A blogger for the Huffington Post, freelance writer David Weiner, first
reported the plagiarism, mocking the incident as "Farfallegate? The
Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?" He attributed the discovery to Lauren
Handel, a New York lawyer who had been searching the Internet for
recipes and found identical ones on the Food Network and McCain campaign
sites.

"Personally, I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing
up the McCain 'family' recipes," Weiner wrote. "Did the intern lose
Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food
Network recipes?""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502881.html



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