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Cooking scales of justice?
By Ann | January 8, 2008
Deceptive, sneaky; tomato, to-mah-to? According to an AP article, things are coming to a head between Jessica Seinfeld (she of Deceptively Delicious) and Missy Chase Lapine (she of The Sneaky Chef), with a law suit. Lapine claims that Jessica Seinfeld plagiarized her ideas, and that Seinfeld’s husband, Jerry, slandered her on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” when he called Lapine a “crackpot.” It is true that both books have a very similar premise, though we understand plagiarism is notoriously hard to prove in court…. (Perhaps our comrades at Decisionism could weigh in on this.) In the meantime, we’ve got four tubs of pureed vegetables in our freezer and no plans to use them.
P.S. In other media-related news, my Washington Life piece on District dining is in this month’s issue!
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Your understanding is correct. It’s notoriously hard. For more, take a look at:
http://decisionismblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/gastronomic-interlude.html