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Perth Now
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Baker reveals source of recipes as she breaks silence over copycat claims
After taking a break for a few weeks to 'pause and reflect', Brooki Bakehouse's Brooke Bellamy has broken her silence after plagiarism allegations were levelled against her, saying it's time to get back to work. The food fight that broke the internet last month started when RecipeTin Eats author Nagi Maehashi accused Bellamy of reproducing her caramel slice recipe in Bellamy's book, Bake With Brooki. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Baker breaks silence over copycat claims. 'This is a story about a multimillion-dollar cookbook by a social media influencer, published by a blue-chip publisher, featuring numerous recipes that, in my opinion, are plagiarised, given the detailed and extensive word-for-word similarities to mine and those of other authors,' Maehashi said at the time. Bellamy was hit by a second accusation by US baker Sally McKenney, of Sally's Baking Addiction, who claimed Bellamy's vanilla cake recipe was suspiciously similar to her own. The controversy didn't stop there, with Maehashi herself accused of plagiarism by celebrity chef Luke Mangan. Bellamy and Penguin Random House Australia, which published her book, have denied the copying allegations. As the baking pans began to cool off, Bellamy came forward on Saturday to address the controversy and announce that she's ready to get back to her bakery. 'I've never experienced something like I have over the last few weeks,' she told her 2 million supporters on TikTok. 'When I was invited to make a cookbook, I was really excited to share all the recipes I've been making since I was small.' RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy, the self-described entrepreneur who founded Brooki Bakehouse. Credit: RecipeTin Eats/Brooki Bakehouse Bellamy said while she had been inspired and influenced by bakeries and bakers the world over, her biggest inspiration was her mother, who taught her how to cook and bake. 'These recipes have been written down on paper, handed to me by friends and family, they get passed down by generations, they get scaled up and scaled down in the bakery settings. 'While all of these recipes are personal to me, I cannot say that I have invented the cookies, cupcakes, brownies, or cakes in the recipe book. 'They are all inspired from somewhere and someone before me.' Bellamy said food has always been a shared experience for her and she 'never subscribed' to 'a narrative that pits two women against each other, especially in the same industry'. 'I think there's room for everyone, especially more women in business,' she said. Brooki Bakehouse's celebrated its third birthday on Saturday at their Valley location in Brisbane, with people lining up in the early hours of the morning for free cookies and to snap a picture with Bellamy. There are no known legal proceedings against Bellamy at this time.
7NEWS
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Brooke Bellamy of Brooki Bakehouse breaks silence after plagiarism allegations from RecipeTin Eats' Nagi Maehashi
After taking a break for a few weeks to 'pause and reflect', Brooki Bakehouse's Brooke Bellamy has broken her silence after plagiarism allegations were levelled against her, saying it's time to get back to work. The food fight that broke the internet last month started when RecipeTin Eats author Nagi Maehashi accused Bellamy of reproducing her caramel slice recipe in Bellamy's book, Bake With Brooki. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Baker breaks silence over copycat claims. 'This is a story about a multimillion-dollar cookbook by a social media influencer, published by a blue-chip publisher, featuring numerous recipes that, in my opinion, are plagiarised, given the detailed and extensive word-for-word similarities to mine and those of other authors,' Maehashi said. Bellamy was hit by a second accusation by US baker Sally McKenney, of Sally's Baking Addiction, who claimed Bellamy's vanilla cake recipe was suspiciously similar to her own. The controversy didn't stop there, with Maehashi herself accused of plagiarism by celebrity chef Luke Mangan. Bellamy and Penguin Random House Australia, which published her book, have denied the copying allegations. As the baking pans began to cool off, Bellamy came forward on Saturday saying she is ready to get back to her bakery. 'I've never experienced something like I have over the last few weeks,' she told her 2 million supporters on TikTok. 'When I was invited to make a cookbook, I was really excited to share all the recipes I've been making since I was small.' Bellamy said while she had been inspired and influenced by bakeries and bakers the world over, her biggest inspiration was her mother, who taught her how to cook and bake. 'These recipes have been written down on paper, handed to me by friends and family, they get passed down by generations, they get scaled up and scaled down in the bakery settings. 'While all of these recipes are personal to me, I cannot say that I have invented the cookies, cupcakes, brownies, or cakes in the recipe book. 'They are all inspired from somewhere and someone before me.' Bellamy said food has always been a shared experience for her and she 'never subscribed' to 'a narrative that pits two women against each other, especially in the same industry'. 'I think there's room for everyone, especially more women in business,' she said. Brooki Bakehouse's celebrated its third birthday on Saturday at their Valley location in Brisbane, with people lining up in the early hours of the morning for free cookies and to snap a picture with Bellamy. There are no known legal proceedings against Bellamy at this time.
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Viral cookbook scandal: Top food influencer slammed by bloggers over ‘plagiarised' recipes
Brooke Bellamy , a popular food influencer in Australia, landed herself in hot water after getting accused of publishing recipes in her 2024 cookbook that were allegedly plagiarised from others' work. #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack Nuclear Power! How India and Pakistan's arsenals stack up Does America have a plan to capture Pakistan's nuclear weapons? Airspace blockade: India plots a flight path to skip Pakistan RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi shared on her food blog on April 29 that she made copyright infringement allegations against Bellamy and Penguin Random House Australia , which had published the cookbook, Bake with Brooki , People magazine reported. Maehashi said that she saw her recipes in the "$4 million book" and has since been battling with them. Continue to video 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Mother saw squirrels in her window, but when she took a closer look at them she called the police! Story To Hear Undo Nagi Maehashi's allegations The food blogger claimed that there were recipes in the bestselling book that have allegedly been plagiarised. These include two from Maehashi's website, besides a few others from others. Maehashi claimed that Bellamy is yet to respond to her, while the publishing house has completely denied all her allegations. Live Events She stated that the language in her blog post might feel a "little clunky" to the readers, which is due to the "legal constraints". Also Read : Obama sisters stun at star-studded LA album launch; Malia & Sasha's glamorous looks break the internet When and how did it start? It all began in November last year, according to Maehashi. She stated that she knew from a reader that the cookbook, which came out in 2024, featured a caramel slice recipe. This was having "remarkable similarities" to one of Maehashi's works. Soon after, Maehashi started investigating the matter on her own and found out that a baklava recipe from her was quite similar to the one that the cookbook shared. Although Maehashi acknowledged that recipes might resemble one another, the similarities she witnessed in the particular case was "far too strong to be a coincidence.' In December 2024, she even discussed this issue with the publishers, but was not happy with their response. She claims that rather than holding "civil discussions," the publisher is believed to have roped in lawyers that made her feel legally intimidating, she wrote in her blog. More plagiarism allegations come up Sally McKenney, the person behind Sally's Baking Addiction series, recently shared on her Instagram Stories that she was "grateful" to hear from Maehashi that one of her recipes was allegedly plagiarised in the book, besides a few recipes appearing on the YouTube channel of the author, CNN reported. Also Read : ESA's new biomass satellite could revolutionize how we study Earth's forests — Here's how it works On her behalf, Bellamy has denied all the accusations, stating that the book features 100 recipes that she has "created over many years". She even shared evidence to back her claim and wrote that she had "immediately offered" the choice to get the recipes removed from her book's future reprints. She added that the same was communicated to Maehashi as well. FAQs 1. What changes have been made after Nagi Maehashi's allegations? As per her post, a different version of the caramel slice recipe has been released in the new edition of the cookbook. 2. How did Brooke Bellamy respond to the plagiarism allegations? She has denied copying the content for her recipes in her cookbook.
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Recipetin eats founder begs fans to stop attacking Brooke Bellamy as the cook shuts down her social media amid plagiarism row
Cookbook author and blogger Nagi Maehashi has taken a stand against 'trolls' who have been attacking Brooke Bellamy amid their plagiarism row. Maehashi sparked a firestorm when she alleged former travel blogger-turned-baker Bellamy copied two of her recipes for caramel slice, and baklava in her book, Bake with Brooki. On Thursday the row took a surprise turn when Maehashi posted a video to Instagram betting her fans and supporters to leave Bellamy alone. 'Please stop the trolling' the Australian cook said in the clip. 'Now I know I've made serious allegations, but this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy' she continued. 'I do not support it, and I'm asking you to stop. I know that this is just a very, very small percentage of people online. I know the majority of people are good, fun, normal people. 'You know, share your opinions, have heated debates, support Brookie, support me, disagree with both of us, think we're pathetic, whatever you want, but just keep it respectful, no trolling, no hateful comments.' Maehashi went on: 'Fundamentally, at the end of the day, we're talking recipes, and this is a business dispute. 'You know, these are legal allegations that I've made against Penguin, a corporate, allegations made by my company. 'So it just, we've gotta be respectful about this, you know, it's the Recipe Tin way.' It comes after online baking sensation Bellamy locked down her social media amid a furious backlash over the plagiarism row which has blown up around her. In the wake of the blockbuster claims, other chefs and authors have also now come forward with similar allegations. US-based baker Sally McKenney of Sally's Baking Addiction fame claimed on Instagram that Bellamy had also copied her vanilla cake recipe after Maehashi reached out to alert her about it. 'Original recipe creators who put in the work to develop and test recipes deserve credit – especially in a best-selling cookbook,' McKenney said. Maehashi sparked a firestorm when she alleged former travel blogger-turned-baker Bellamy copied two of her recipes for caramel slice, and baklava in her book, Bake with Brooki. Bellamy has denied the allegations Pregnant mother-of-one Bellamy rejected the claim, posting to Instagram that her book Bake with Brooki is made up of recipes 'created over many years'. She has denied the plagiarism allegations and insisted she has been making the caramel slice recipe since 2016, re-posting a snap of the creation she made at that time. Bellamy has now bunkered down at her $3.6million three-bedroom home in Brisbane and issued a plea for privacy as she turned her personal Instagram account to private after trolls flooded her pages with savage attacks over the row. 'The past 24 hours have been extremely overwhelming,' she said in a statement. '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. 'While baking has leeway for creativity, much of it is a precise science and is necessarily formulaic. Many recipes are bound to share common steps and measures: if they don't, they simply don't work. 'My priority right now is to ensure the welfare of the fantastic team at Brooki Bakehouse and that of my family.' Penguin has also denied the allegations, saying via their lawyers: 'Our client respectfully rejects your client's allegations and confirms that the recipes in [Bake with Brooki] were written by Brooke Bellamy', according to Maehashi. Award-winning chef and restaurateur Luke Mangan joined the furore but turned the tables and accused RecipeTin Eats of not crediting him properly for one of his dishes. He said that while Maehashi did provide a footnote credit to him for a butter chicken recipe she had used online and in her book, she should have got in touch to say she was using it, and added a link to his website. 'I couldn't say off the top of my head whether she did reach out and ask permission or not, but I would have thought, in general, you would contact the person whose recipe it was,' he said. 'All of my recipes in my (seven) books are copyrighted, we own them, they are our intellectual property.' Maehashi adapted Mangan's butter chicken recipe - adding salt and a low-fat cream option - and referenced the chef in a footnote online. Mangan was not mentioned in the print copy but it did feature a QR code linking to the online credited version. Maehashi's book includes the statement 'the author and the publisher have made every effort to contact copyright holders for material used in this book'. Things took a further twist on Wednesday after Bellamy was dumped as an ambassador for a federal government-funded girls business program over the row. She was due to be announced as an VIP figurehead for the Academy for Enterprising Girls. 'Brooke Bellamy was recently engaged to conduct a small number of promotional activities for the Academy for Enterprising Girls program over the coming months,' an academy spokesman told The Daily Telegraph. 'While we make no legal assessment on the allegations aired in the media, we have informed Bellamy that we will not move forward with the engagement at this time.' Both Penguin and Bellamy strenuously deny the allegations. 'I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years,' Bellamy said on Tuesday night. 'In 2016, I opened my first bakery. I have been creating my recipes and selling them commercially since October 2016. 'On March 2020, RecipeTin Eats published a recipe for caramel slice. It uses the same ingredients as my recipe, which I have been making and selling since four years prior.' Maehashi has since countered with a internet webarchive screenshot showing her same recipe from April 29, 2016. While Bellamy insisted she did not copy the recipes, she 'immediately offered to remove both from future reprints to prevent further aggravation'. In Maehashi's Instagram post, she accused Bellamy of 'profiting' from the allegedly plagiarised recipes. Maehashi claims she first raised concerns with Penguin in December. 'I put a huge amount of effort into my recipes. And I share them on my website for anyone to use for free,' she said. 'To see them plagiarised (in my view) and used in a book for profit, without credit, doesn't just feel unfair. It feels like a blatant exploitation of my work.' Maehashi is the founder of popular website, RecipeTin Eats, which has 1.5 million followers on Instagram. She is also the author of award-winning cookbooks Dinner and Tonight. Bellamy quickly became a global sensation after sharing videos on TikTok, which receive millions of views each day. She is best known for her cookies and has opened pop-up stores in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Her Bake With Brooki is a bestselling cookbook published by Penguin in October last year and retails for $49.99. Maehashi and Bellamy could face off next week at the Australian book industry awards in Melbourne, where their respective bestselling cookbooks have both been nominated for the 2025 Illustrated Book of the Year.
7NEWS
30-04-2025
- Business
- 7NEWS
Crushing career blow for Brooki Bakehouse's Brooke Bellamy amid devastating plagiarism claims
Brooki Bakehouse owner Brooke Bellamy has been dropped from a high-profile ambassador role in the wake of plagiarism claims by RecipeTin Eats author Nagi Maehashi. Maehashi claims Bellamy reproduced recipes from the RecipeTin Eats website and other authors in her own book, Bake With Brooki. Nagi claimed Bellamy plagiarised her caramel slice recipe. Bellamy was hit by a second accusation by US baker Sally McKenney, of Sally's Baking Addiction, who claimed Bellamy's vanilla cake recipe was extremely similar to her own. Bellamy and Penguin Random House Australia, which published her book, have denied the allegations. Bellamy has been dropped as an Academy for Enterprising Girls ambassador, a role funded by the federal government, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. 'Brooke Bellamy was recently engaged to conduct a small number of promotional activities for the Academy for Enterprising Girls program over the coming months,' an academy spokesman told the publication. 'While we make no legal assessment on the allegations aired in the media, we have informed Bellamy we will not move forward with the engagement at this time.' On Thursday, legal expert Isabella Alexander appeared on Sunrise to dissect the claims against Bellamy. 'It is possible (to plagiarise a recipe). This might surprise a lot of people but, because it is a literary work, it falls within the literary act,' Alexander said. 'We are not talking about copying a cake itself or a slice itself or the idea of cooking a slice, but it is the actual words on the page that explain what the ingredient are and how you cook. 'That could be potentially protected by copyright law.' Alexander explained these are very difficult cases to prosecute. 'My first legal thought is how difficult these cases are (to prove in court). As mentioned before, it is really difficult to do a new recipe of a classic dish,' Alexander said. 'If you are going to make a caramel slice it has to have certain ingredients and, to work, they have to be in similar proportions. 'Copyright protects the author's independent expression and it is hard to do that with a list of ingredients. 'It is more in the instructions. That is where the author can put their twist on the recipe. 'Some recipes are easy to follow and some are not so much. That is where you would be looking for the similarities. 'But, they would have to have a lot of similarities in a case like this.' Alexander explained the difference between plagiarism and copyright. 'Plagiarism is different to copyright. Plagiarism is just copying someone's idea without giving them credit for it. But copyright law has a lot more specificity because it is a legal action. 'You need to prove that you created the recipe yourself. That it is an original work and that the person who copied it, copied the entirety of the recipe or a substantial part of it. 'And the part that they copied is the intellectual contribution that you, as the author, brought to it. 'These cases are hard to prove and very expensive to bring, so that is why you don't see very many of them.'
