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Qatar Tribune
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Qatar Tribune
President stresses unity as Taiwan marks war end
Taipei: Taiwan held its first official commemoration of the end of World War II in Europe, with President Lai Ching-te urging freedom-loving people and nations to unite against rising authoritarian threats. Marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, the event was attended by representatives from 17 countries and the European Union. At the 'From VE Day to Every Day' event in Taipei, a film shown to diplomats from Europe ended with the powerful message: 'Eighty years on, we still remember that only unity can deter expansionist ambitions and defeat aggression.' Lai urged democracies to stand united before risks escalate into crises, and crises fuel expansionist ambitions. 'Only then can we continue on for generations with our current way of life; only then can we retain our human dignity and values,' Lai said. 'Peace is priceless, and war has no winners. WWII was undoubtedly the deadliest war in human history, and the pain that it caused has echoed even to the present day,' Lai said. Lai said that WWII erupted because the world underestimated the aggressors' ambitions, and victory came from united efforts to resist and protect homelands. (DPA)
Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
RecipeTin Eat's Nagi Maehashi accuses baker Brooke Bellamy of copying famous baker's recipe
Cookbook author and blogger Nagi Maehashi has claimed the late Bill Granger is another author whose work was plagiarised by baker Brooke Bellamy. Ms Maehashi sparked a firestorm this week when she alleged the former travel blogger-turned-baker copied two of her recipes for caramel slice, and baklava in her book Bake with Brooki. Ms Bellamy strenuously denied the allegations and made a statement via her lawyers. 'I do not copy other people's recipes,' she said. 'Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum.' Speaking with Good Food, Ms Maehashi confirmed social media rumours that Bake with Brooki may have copied a Portuguese tart recipe from Granger's book Every Day, which was published in 2006. 'It is so blatant to me that the wording in the method part of the recipe is copied almost exactly. To me, it is the biggest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author,' Ms Maehashi said. 'I was so shocked when I saw it. Bill is an icon of the Australian food scene. When I became aware of it, I knew that including it in my statement would make it stronger, but I left it out at the request of Bill's family.' Publishing director of Murdoch Books Jane Morrow released a statement that read: 'We are aware of the allegations of plagiarism involving the uncredited use of a recipe by Bill Granger. We take any suggestion that his work has been reproduced without acknowledgement seriously. We are currently reviewing the concerns raised.' American-based baker Sally McKenney also alleged that Ms Bellamy used her vanilla cake recipe after Ms Maehashi told her about the scandal. Ms Maehashi said she went public with the allegations because she wanted people 'to take responsibility for their actions and to remind influencers and publishers that stealing work is not okay'. But she still sympathised with Ms Bellamy after the swell of criticism she'd received online. Ms Maehashi said on Instagram on Thursday: 'I made the statement knowing that it would come with a barrage of hate against me, and social media did not let me down. I'm asking you to stop the personal attacks against Brooke Bellamy. That's not the way to speak your mind and that's not the kind of support I want.' Ms Maehashi told Penguin Books months ago about the resemblances between two of her recipes, along with Granger's, in Bake with Brooki. Penguin 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. It's hard to prove recipe plagiarism, particularly when recipes like baklava, caramel slice and Portuguese custard tarts are varieties of recipes that have been tweaked many times over the years. Award-winning chef and restaurateur Luke Mangan turned the tables and accused RecipeTin Eats of not crediting him properly for one of his dishes. He said that while Ms 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.' Ms Maehashi's website, RecipeTin Eats, has 1.5million followers on Instagram and she has also authored award-winning cookbooks Dinner and Tonight. Ms Bellamy quickly became a global sensation after sharing videos on TikTok, which receive millions of views every day. She is best known for her cookies and has opened pop-up stores in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Ms Maehashi said she wasn't across copyright infringement, but hired a lawyer specialising in intellectual property. Ms Bellamy said in her statement via her lawyers: '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,' she said. The Brisbane-based Brooki Bakehouse owner was due to be announced as an ambassador for the Academy for Enterprising Girls, which is an initiative designed to help students think like an entrepreneur and start their own business one day. But she was dumped as the ambassador following plagiarism claims. '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 Daily Mail Australia. '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.' It is not suggested that the accusations of plagiarism against Bellamy are true, only that they have been made
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Third cookbook author named in Brooke Bellamy, Nagi Maehashi recipe dispute
RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi revealed a third cookbook author has been 'blantantly' plagiarised by baker Brooke Bellamy. Brisbane bakery owner and author of $4.6m selling cookbook Bellamy has been accused of copying recipes, which she strenuously denies and has described the backlash she has faced since accusations first emerged as 'deeply distressing'. Fellow author and cook Maehashi first accused Bellamy of plagiarising two recipes in her best-selling book, Bake with Brooki, as well as from 'other authors' — which the RecipeTin Eats founder initially did not name. After the allegations were shared publicly on April 29, famed US baker, Sally McKenney, then also claimed that a vanilla cake recipe from a book she had published in 2019 was used in Bellamy's 2024 cookbook. Now, Maehashi has confirmed to Good Food, for which she is a columnist, that the late Bill Granger is another author she believes has been plagiarised. 'It is so blatant to me that the wording in the method part of the recipe is copied almost exactly. To me, it is the biggest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author,' Maehashi says. The article — Maehashi's first interview since the allegations — included Granger's Portuguese tarts recipe from his 2006 cookbook Every Day, alongside the Portuguese tarts recipe in Bake with Brooki. Maehashi claimed the wording for the method is nearly identical to the text used in the original. 'I was so shocked when I saw it. Bill is an icon of the Australian food scene. When I became aware of it, I knew that including it in my statement would make it stronger but I left it out at the request of Bill's family,' Maehashi told Good Food. Granger died in December 2023 and Good Food reported that his widow Natalie Elliott declined to comment, but Murdoch Books publishing director Jane Morrow said they were aware of the allegations and were 'currently reviewing the concerns raised'. has contacted Murdoch Books for comment. Bellamy's lawyer said she had nothing to add to an earlier statement that said: 'I do not copy other people's recipes'. 'Please stop': Nagi Maehashi addresses backlash Maehashi told social media trolls to stop personal attacks towards Bellamy in an Instagram video on Thursday night. 'Now I know I've made serious allegations. But this does not justify the personal attacks that I've seen online against Brooke Bellamy. I do not support it and I'm asking you to stop,' she said. 'I know that this is just a very, very small percentage of people online and I know the majority of people are good, fun, normal people. You know, share your opinions, have heated debates, support Brooki, support me, disagree with both of us, think we're pathetic, whatever you want. But just keep it respectful. No trolling, no hateful comments. 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 have made against Penguin, a corporate, allegations made by my company. So we've got to be respectful about this.' Maehashi told Good Food she was also being trolled by people trying to find examples of plagiarism on her own website. 'I am not a martyr. I am not pretending I am pure, but this is of a magnitude that I felt I had to speak up,' she was quoted to say. Bellamy had shared a statement with on Wednesday night, saying the backlash she had faced since the accusations first emerged had been 'deeply distressing' both for her and her family. 'The past 24 hours have been extremely overwhelming,' said the star in a statement, saying that she has faced 'attacks' on social media as a result. '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.' Bellamy went on to insist that she has never copied another baker's recipe, and instead has only ever 'drawn inspiration' for her own creations. 'I do not copy other people's recipes. Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste, and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum.' She continued: '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 claims in a statement sent by their lawyers to Maehashi's lawyer, which read: 'Our client respectfully rejects your clients' allegations and confirms that the recipes in the BWB Book were written by Brooke Bellamy.' It was revealed on Thursday that Bellamy had been dropped from working as ambassador for the Academy for Enterprising Girls, an Australian Government-funded entrepreneurship program to help young women aged between 10 and 18 learn new skills. '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 said in a statement. '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.' Nagi Maehashi's copycat allegations Maehashi accused Bellamy of plagiarising her caramel slice and baklava recipes from her site RecipeTin Eats. Additionally, she claimed that other authors had their recipes copied by Bellamy. Bellamy vigorously denied these claims as well. 'I'm no stranger to seeing my recipes copied online,' Maehashi wrote in a post on Instagram and on her website. 'But seeing what I believe to be my recipes and my words printed in a multimillion-dollar book launched with a huge publicity campaign from one of Australia's biggest publishers was shocking.' 'There are also recipes from other authors, including from a very well known, beloved cookbook author where the similarities are so extensive, dismissing it as coincidence would be absurd (in my opinion),' Maehashi wrote in her post addressed to Bellamy and her publisher Penguin Books. 'Out of respect for and at the request of authors, I cannot share further details.' Later on, McKenney, who blogs under @sallysbakeblog and boasts 1 million followers on Instagram, claimed that her vanilla cake recipe was used by Bellamy. reached out to Maehashi for further comment on the allegations. We also reached out to McKenney, who politely declined to comment. In a statement posted on her Instagram Story on Thursday, Maehashi claimed she went 'back and forth with Penguin/Brooki' for 'almost 6 months' before going public with the allegations this week. She also denied her goal was for compensation. 'I have nothing to gain out of speaking up except that I believe it's the right thing to do. I do not want their money. I didn't even ask for reimbursement of legal fees,' the statement said.
The Age
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
RecipeTin Eats confirms Bill Granger rumour speculation as trolls weigh in
RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has confirmed the late Bill Granger is another author whose work she believes has been plagiarised by baker Brooke Bellamy in her book Bake with Brooki. One of Australia's most popular recipe writers, Maehashi made allegations on April 29 of copyright infringements by Penguin Random House, the publisher of Bellamy's book, claiming the author, influencer and bakery owner stole two recipes from her website and from 'other authors, including cookbooks'. Bellamy strenuously denies the allegations, making a statement via her lawyers. 'I do not copy other people's recipes,' she says. 'Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum.' In an exclusive interview with Good Food, Maehashi confirmed social media speculation that Bake with Brooki may have copied 'virtually word for word' the Portuguese tart recipe from Granger's 2006 cookbook Every Day.
Sydney Morning Herald
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
RecipeTin Eats confirms Bill Granger rumour speculation as trolls weigh in
Exclusive Food Baking In Nagi Maehashi's first interview since the plagiarism row erupted, she admits to feeling scared, and says people are combing her site for examples of her own copy-cat recipes. RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has confirmed the late Bill Granger is another author whose work she believes has been plagiarised by baker Brooke Bellamy in her book Bake with Brooki. One of Australia's most popular recipe writers, Maehashi made allegations on April 29 of copyright infringements by Penguin Random House, the publisher of Bellamy's book, claiming the author, influencer and bakery owner stole two recipes from her website and from 'other authors, including cookbooks'. Bellamy strenuously denies the allegations, making a statement via her lawyers. 'I do not copy other people's recipes,' she says. 'Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum.' In an exclusive interview with Good Food, Maehashi confirmed social media speculation that Bake with Brooki may have copied 'virtually word for word' the Portuguese tart recipe from Granger's 2006 cookbook Every Day. 'It is so blatant to me that the wording in the method part of the recipe is copied almost exactly. To me, it is the biggest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author,' Maehashi says. 'I was so shocked when I saw it. Bill is an icon of the Australian food scene. When I became aware of it, I knew that including it in my statement would make it stronger but I left it out at the request of Bill's family.' Maehashi admits to feeling scared and nervous in the midst of an internet storm over her allegations and says she is being trolled by people combing her recipes to find examples of plagiarism on her website. She says the reason she has gone public with her allegations is because 'I want people to take responsibility for their actions and to remind influencers and publishers that stealing work is not OK'. Sally McKenney, the US-based baker behind the Sally's Baking Addiction website, has also alleged her vanilla cake recipe was used by Bellamy after a tip-off by Maehashi. Jane Morrow, publishing director of Murdoch Books, said 'we are aware of the allegations of plagiarism involving the uncredited use of a recipe by Bill Granger. We take any suggestion that his work has been reproduced without acknowledgement seriously. We are currently reviewing the concerns raised.' Granger's widow, Natalie, who continues to run the cafe and restaurant empire built by the famed Sydney chef after he died in December 2023, has been contacted by Good Food but chose not to comment. Maehashi says she alerted Penguin months ago about the similarities between two of her recipes - caramel slice and baklava - along with Granger's Portuguese custard tart, and the recipes printed in Bake with Brooki. 'They refused to take responsibility and they have not done anything proactive to remedy this other than to quietly offer to replace the recipes in future reprints. All they have done is deny,' Maehashi says. I am not a martyr. I am not pretending I am pure, but this is of a magnitude that I felt I had to speak up. Nagi Maehashi It has historically been difficult to prove recipe plagiarism, especially when recipes such as baklava, caramel slice and Portuguese custard tarts are not original ideas but versions of traditional recipes that have been tweaked and replicated thousands of times. Maehashi says she is not across the fine details of copyright infringement, though she has engaged a lawyer specialising in intellectual property, but she says it is the fact that some phrases in the method section of Bellamy's recipes in her view 'appear to have been literally copied and pasted from the originals' that sparked her to speak out. 'That is what stood out to me. If you strip the [legal] talk about recipe plagiarism and just look at the [fundamental meaning of] plagiarism ... that is what I am objecting to,' she says. In a statement published to the RecipeTin Eats website on Tuesday, Maehashi said she was no stranger to her recipes being copied online, but was shocked to see their reproduction in such a highly publicised book. 'My recipes [were] printed in a book launched with a huge publicity campaign from one of Australia's biggest publishers,' she said. 'It has sold over $4.6 million worth of sales in under six months.' This masthead does not suggest the accusations of plagiarism are true, only that they have been made. Penguin has denied the allegations, 'stating (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 a post on Maehashi's Instagram page. Bellamy also said in her statement via her lawyers '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.' Maehashi says that if Penguin had admitted there was a problem when she contacted them last year, she would have 'let it go' and not gone public. 'The thing that really bothered me is that they did not take responsibility no matter how many examples I showed them.' 'I could not sleep knowing what I knew. I am not a martyr. I am not pretending I am pure but this is of a magnitude that I felt I had to speak up. I am not after money.'
