Brooke Bellamy denies new plagiarism allegations by popular US baker
US-based Sally McKenney, of SallysBakeBlog, who has 1 million followers on Instagram, alleged that one of her cake recipes had been copied in Bellamy's Bake With Brooki.
McKenney's post on Wednesday came a day after the founder of food website RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi, went public with allegations that Bellamy, owner of three cafes in Brisbane, copied two of McKenney's recipes in the book published by Penguin.
'I'm so grateful you let me know months ago that one of my recipes (The Best Vanilla Cake I've Ever Had, published by me in 2019) was also plagiarised in this book and also appears on the author's YouTube channel,' McKenney wrote. 'Original recipe creators who put in the work to develop and test recipes deserve credit – especially in a bestselling cookbook.'
Maehashi, a Good Food columnist, claimed in an Instagram post on Wednesday that the similarities with two of her own recipes 'are so specific and detailed that calling these a coincidence feels disingenuous'. The recipes in question are the caramel slice and baklava.
Bellamy had strenuously denied the claims made by Maehashi in a story on her Instagram account. 'I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years,' she wrote.
This masthead does not suggest the accusations of plagiarism are true, only that they have been made.
Bellamy, who is four months pregnant, released a second statement through her lawyers this afternoon.
'The past 24 hours have been extremely overwhelming. I have had media outside my home and business, and have been attacked online. It has been deeply distressing for my colleagues and my young family,' it read.
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