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The Age
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
RecipeTin Eats founder upset her recipe was used to murder three people
The beef Wellington in RecipeTin Eats' acclaimed debut cookbook, Dinner, once stood as a testament to founder Nagi Maehashi's meticulous approach to trial-and-error recipe development. 'I'm proud to say I've finally cracked one of the trickiest of haute cuisine classics, the grand beef Wellington,' Maehashi wrote on her RecipeTin Eats website in 2022. 'The end result is incredibly juicy, edge-to-edge rose pink beef encased in pastry boasting a flawlessly crispy base.' Though the self-taught cook once baked 89 variations on a vanilla butter cake before publishing the recipe to her site, it was her beef Wellington that had taken the longest amount of time to perfect. But over the past nine weeks, Maehashi's labour of love became the signature dish in the so-called mushroom murder trial of Erin Patterson.
News.com.au
09-07-2025
- News.com.au
‘Upsetting': Beef wellington chef breaks silence on Erin Patterson's recipe inspiration
The chef whose dish was dragged into the mushroom murder trial says she is upset the recipe is entangled in the tragedy. Australian online culinary figure Nagi Maehashi found herself as one of the countless facets of Erin Patterson's lengthy murder trial when it was revealed the triple murderer used one of Ms Maehashi's recipes as the basis for the fatal beef wellington dish. 'Dear journalists of Australia, please stop calling and emailing and texting and DM'ing me about the Erin Patterson case,' Ms Maehashi posted on Tuesday following the jury's guilty verdicts. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' she wrote. 'Other than that I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone. Thank you for respecting my privacy – Nagi.' Patterson, 50, was on Monday found guilty of the murders of Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and the attempted murder of Ms Wilkinson's husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, 71. During the trial, Patterson told the jury that she made beef wellingtons based on a recipe in Ms Maehashi's cookbook and wanted 'to do something new and special'. Patterson laced the meal with poisonous mushrooms at her Leongatha home on July 29, 2023. 'Murder is not fun' Swinburne University PhD candidate Loryn Sykes says the media and public have turned a devastating loss of life into a show for their own amusement. Ms Sykes is hoping to complete a PhD in true crime podcasting. 'From an avalanche of memes about the case, to journalists hounding the author of the cookbook Patterson based her beef wellington recipe on, there has been no shortage of unhelpful and deeply unserious behaviour online which has been spurred by this case,' she said. 'The Erin Patterson case had all the hallmarks of a classic true-crime tale – fraught interpersonal family relationships which led to murder, a perpetrator who has been described as 'narcissistic' and 'evil', and an investigation with enough twists and turns to rival any true- crime podcast or series,' Ms Sykes said. In a media release, Ms Sykes said 'the intense media and public attention on this case was inevitable, but the amount of online discussion and in-person gossiping about the Patterson case reveals how easy it is to turn unthinkable tragedy into an amusing pop-culture moment to chat about'. 'Murder is not fun. Having not just one but several family members ripped away from you by the actions of another is a harrowing experience,' she said. 'The last thing the Patterson and Wilkinson families need is more eyes on them during such a horrifying moment in their lives.' The families involved in the case now needed privacy and time to heal, she said. 'This pain and grief will be with them for the rest of their lives; the intense international media coverage this case has received will certainly not have helped them grieve,' Ms Sykes said.
The Australian
09-07-2025
- The Australian
Beef wellington chef Nagi Maehashi breaks silence on Erin Patterson trial
The chef whose dish was dragged into the mushroom murder trial says she is upset the recipe is entangled in the tragedy. Australian online culinary figure Nagi Maehashi found herself as one of the countless facets of Erin Patterson's lengthy murder trial when it was revealed the triple murderer used one of Ms Maehashi's recipes as the basis for the fatal beef wellington dish. 'Dear journalists of Australia, please stop calling and emailing and texting and DM'ing me about the Erin Patterson case,' Ms Maehashi posted on Tuesday following the jury's guilty verdicts. Nagi Maehashi has a large following on her RecipeTin Eats site. Picture: Supplied Police found this cookbook when they searched Erin Patterson's house. Picture: Supplied 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' she wrote. 'Other than that I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone. Thank you for respecting my privacy – Nagi.' Patterson, 50, was on Monday found guilty of the murders of Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and the attempted murder of Ms Wilkinson's husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, 71. During the trial, Patterson told the jury that she made beef wellingtons based on a recipe in Ms Maehashi's cookbook and wanted 'to do something new and special'. Patterson laced the meal with poisonous mushrooms at her Leongatha home on July 29, 2023. 'Murder is not fun' Swinburne University PhD candidate Loryn Sykes says the media and public have turned a devastating loss of life into a show for their own amusement. Ms Sykes is hoping to complete a PhD in true crime podcasting. 'From an avalanche of memes about the case, to journalists hounding the author of the cookbook Patterson based her beef wellington recipe on, there has been no shortage of unhelpful and deeply unserious behaviour online which has been spurred by this case,' she said. Following the guilty verdicts, the court released images of evidence, including the beef wellington in question and the above cookbook. Picture: Supplied 'The Erin Patterson case had all the hallmarks of a classic true-crime tale – fraught interpersonal family relationships which led to murder, a perpetrator who has been described as 'narcissistic' and 'evil', and an investigation with enough twists and turns to rival any true- crime podcast or series,' Ms Sykes said. In a media release, Ms Sykes said 'the intense media and public attention on this case was inevitable, but the amount of online discussion and in-person gossiping about the Patterson case reveals how easy it is to turn unthinkable tragedy into an amusing pop-culture moment to chat about'. 'Murder is not fun. Having not just one but several family members ripped away from you by the actions of another is a harrowing experience,' she said. 'The last thing the Patterson and Wilkinson families need is more eyes on them during such a horrifying moment in their lives.' The families involved in the case now needed privacy and time to heal, she said. 'This pain and grief will be with them for the rest of their lives; the intense international media coverage this case has received will certainly not have helped them grieve,' Ms Sykes said. Blair Jackson Reporter Blair's journalism career has taken him from Perth, to New Zealand, Queensland and now Melbourne. Blair Jackson
The Independent
09-07-2025
- The Independent
Australian chef upset her beef wellington recipe became ‘entangled' in mushroom murders case
A popular chef expressed disappointment that her beef wellington recipe took centerstage during the high-profile Erin Patterson triple murder trial in Australia. Nagi Maehashi, the chef behind the RecipeTin Eats cookbook and food blog, said it was 'upsetting' that her recipe had become 'entangled in a tragic situation'. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – possibly the one I have spent more hours perfecting than any other – something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' she said on Instagram on Tuesday. Ms Maehashi, who had no involvement with the case, asked the media to respect her privacy. 'Other than that, I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone,' she wrote. 'Thank you for respecting my privacy.' A jury this week found Patterson guilty of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband by serving them lunch laced with deadly mushrooms, concluding a criminal trial that had captivated the nation for months. Patterson, 50, was convicted of murdering her mother-in-law, father-in-law and her mother-in-law's sister and of attempting to murder the sister's husband. She had prepared and served a beef wellington lunch to the four guests at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, in July 2023. The following day, they were all hospitalised with symptoms of death cap mushroom poisoning and three of them later died. Patterson claimed that she had used Maehashi's recipe – albeit with significant changes – when preparing the deadly lunch. Through the trial spanning over two months, Patterson insisted the beef wellington was unintentionally contaminated with death cap mushrooms, the world's deadliest fungus. According to 9News, Ms Maehashi had drawn media attention earlier this year after accusing a well-known online baker named Brooke Bellamy of copying two of her recipes. cookbook of her own, denied the claim.
Sydney Morning Herald
09-07-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
RecipeTin Eats founder ‘upset' recipe altered to murder three people
RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has revealed how upset she was to discover her beef Wellington recipe was used to murder three people in the Victorian country town of Leongatha. The self-taught cook and best-selling author took to social media on Tuesday to plead for privacy in the wake of the Erin Patterson murder trial. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – [and] something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' Maehashi wrote to her 1.6 million Instagram followers. 'Other than that, I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone.'
