Link to article in comments. Saw this posted on the pop culture sub, had no idea any of this had happened. I use so many of Nagi’s and Sally’s recipes, sad to see their works get copied like this. Support your fave food bloggers today! 💗
by alice-in-slumberland
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[Link to Elle article about the plagiarism claims](https://www.elle.com.au/culture/food-drink/recipetin-eats-bake-with-brooki-plagiarism-allegations/)
[Link to Nagi/RecipeTin breaking down her plagiarized recipes including side by side comparisons](https://www.recipetineats.com/bake-with-brooki-penguin-plagiarism-allegations-statement/)
Forgot to add – the pic of Sally’s recipe being copied even includes Sally’s original note saying “yes, a tablespoon!”… Brooke didn’t even try to hide it?!
Well I never heard of this plagiarizing content creator but I use Nagi and Sally’s websites daily. Plagiarism is wrong, obviously, so that sucks!
Plus if this person has published a book you’d think her publishers woulda done due diligence to check if it was plagiarized before publishing it??? 😆 Lawsuit.
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If it is true it’s pretty scummy…
I read it on the Australia subreddit and been talking about it with my friend who introduced Brookie to me this morning lol Seems like she copied another recipe, the Persian love cake from someone else as well.
I’m just here for the tea, it’s so messy I love it!
It’s so easy to make little adjustments to avoid the plagiarism accusation as well. It’s insane that she kept the exact same quantity of every ingredient, while she can make a bigger or smaller portion to throw the numbers off a bit to make it harder for anyone to think they’re too similar.
Nagi uses the profits from website and recipe books to fund recipetin meals, they cook 600 meals a day for people in need. It’s so unethical to steal her recipes and profit from nagi when she is using it to fund charity. Also nagi is not requesting compensation or lawyer fees, she is only asking Brooki for proper acknowledgement and to donate compensation to charity.
Wow she didn’t even tweak the recipe. I exclusively follow food content online, and it is so normal to be inspired by another creator. But honest creators will use their inspiration as a base to create another recipe (while crediting their inspiration), or if there are no tweaks, they would just credit the original creator and show their love and appreciation of the recipe.
It’s so shitty of Brooke to do this. What an over-privileged idiot.
Oh you do not mess with my girls Nagi and Sally.
I have always loved Nagi and what I appreciate is that Nagi calls them out in a very specific and visible way. Nagi published a post that wasn’t alluding to it or making everyone play a guessing game – she literally tags Brooke and Penguin and says that they need to do better. This has empowered others like Sally to be able to speak up too.
I believe most of Australia would be !
Didn’t know a thing about any of this. Damn and I really liked Brooki when I first found out about her but shes out here plagiarizing Nagi & Sally, what a shame.
I hope this ends peacefully between all 3 and whoever else she plagiarized. This is just sad for her to do especially after all that Nagi does.
Holy crap that’s scummy. I’m especially not a fan of how the book was apparently sneakily re-released with a different caramel slice recipe, all the while Penguin and Brooki’s representatives denied all allegations and Brooki claimed that the recipe was hers, it just happened to use the exact same ingredients as Hagi’s (also, just the ingredients? The measurements and the process are the same too! What are the chances?).
Absolutely wild. I could never put my finger on what was bad about her vibe
Brooke claims she’s been making the caramel slice since 2016 and claims Nagi is the one who copied her recipe 4 years later, but where are her receipts?
It’s so disappointing to see someone profit from another person’s work.
Many bloggers, influencers and cook books credit others in their recipes and it doesn’t seem to detract from their overall popularity that they took inspiration from another source.
Deb from Smitten Kitchen is always tweaking recipes (while crediting the original!) and I love her website and books because of this. I know she’s thought about the recipe, taken the time to try other ideas or ratios or substitutions and then told me about them. It’s part of the appeal.
If crediting doesn’t detract from popularity, you have to wonder why someone would even plagiarise- laziness or ego?
I’m very much a novice but are recipes really that different? For example if you asked ten bakers for their chocolate chip cookie recipes wouldn’t you get 3 different recipes tops? Or is there really this much difference in the cooking world? Granted I’m using recipes from my grandmother still but I’m pretty sure she got them out of some book at some point. Or is it like music? Where there are only so many melodies possible and it’s all in the arrangement? I really have no idea how recipes are even created besides writhing down trails and crossing out the errors.
I was reading about this last night
I use RTE and Sally’s all the time because they are so reliable. Piggybacking off their work is scummy behaviour, especially for RTE because Nagi uses it to fund her food charity.
She could have asked, credited them, and given Nagis charity a boost at the same time.
Whoa, I follow Brooki on Instagram and saw her post about this today and wondered what was going on. The way she phrased it, it sounded like pure coincidence that one of her recipes was similar to another baker’s, so when she said at the end that she offered to remove the caramel slice recipe from her book, I was surprised. Why would you be so willing to unpublish a recipe you worked hard on?
Now that I have read all of this, and the recipe obviously is plagiarized, the offer makes WAY more sense.
This is a more minor point in the face of the (very obvious) plagiarism, but if you look at the caramel slice recipe, you can see that Brooke actually changed the numbers for the Celsius to Faranheit conversions. Nagi’s original is the correct one – Brooke’s conversions are too high in temp, by about 50 degrees!
Imo, this just speaks to an overall lack of carelessness and honestly laziness in recipe design AND editing. Like I’m sorry, you’re a professional baker and you can’t get a conversion correct on a recipe you stole? And nobody caught that before it went to print?? What a mess.
For people wondering. In the U.S. recipes are not generally given any sort of copyright or patent protections. It’s mostly just an ethical or moral question.
That’s just disappointing. Obviously certain basic recipes are going to look alike…there’s only so many ways to combine ingredients. Ive seen recipes on blogs that were bang on to what my Gram and Babcia did decades ago. So there’s a lot of “Well, of course that vanilla cake and your vanilla cake are similar, they’re vanilla cakes!”…it’s like with chord progressions in claims of musical plagiarism. A lot of coincidences and unintentional inspiration. Still, very sad and disappointing if true.
Nagi AND Sally? Nah, this sucks.
Nagi is such a gem. This is terrible!!!!!
Brooke’s lawyers: she didn’t plagerize.
Where are the receipts???
No, I’m not, and I really don’t care. Sue or shut up about it, for real.
“I ceased further correspondence with Penguin via their lawyers last month as there was no point continuing. They would not admit wrong doing and would not agree to take steps to remedy the situation to my satisfaction. *How I wish I could tell you what they offered to do – but I can’t.*
In recent weeks, I understand that a new edition of the book has been quietly released into the market which has a different Caramel Slice recipe (typical golden syrup version). Eventually, this will replace stock in all retailers, though I’m sure the original version remains.”
This is the nastiest part to me.
Recipetin is my go to for recipes. Glad she is sticking up for herself.
One thing I’d like to note, is that as someone who doesn’t know who these people are, when I googled Brooke Bellamy [the photos on all the articles that come up are all of Nagi Machashi](https://imgur.com/a/sAMKtYC) which originally made me think she was Brooke Bellamy.
Drama AND baking!??
I LIVE!!!!
Yess!! Lots of discussion over on r/foodiesnark
This Brooke character can fuck right off. It’s such a shitty and grifty thing to do to steal someone’s work and time. What’s so fucken hard about crediting someone? It’s not like being decent would dent sales of the book.
They are roasting her on Instagram. Love it. #bakewithCrooki is the hashtag lmao
I have no idea who Brooki is, and I unfortunately was gifted her book for Christmas. Always team Nagi!!
Wow, I’m a huge fan of Nagi! I use her recipes all the time. This is appalling!
One recipe calls for 4 eggs, the other calls for 3 eggs and an additional 2 whites.
I’m willing to bet these same authors have slightly tweaked versions of tollhouse cookies and Hershey’s perfectly chocolate cake on their websites.
Rough day for those of us who are fans/followers of all three. 🙃
It’s kind of interesting that Penguin Random House Australia is the same publisher that published Belle Guinness’s cookbook. You think they would have learned their lesson and vetted their influencer authors better🤔
700K subscribers and her videos ONLY get 40K average viewers , yeah she’s stolen every recipe that she calls hers