[Sca-cooks] Recipegate reply from Isabella

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]

Ha!! Somehow, I'm not surprised. I saw the headline for this story, and I 
said to myself "Yeah, riiiight... when was the last time that woman ever got 
her hands dirty cooking her own food, if ever???"
The lovely thing about the internet is that it makes it real hard to get 
away with shenanigans like that these days.
Thanks for an amusing start to my day, Johnnae!
Cheers,
Isabella

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like 
administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:46 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Recipegate


> 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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