Recipe Eats founder Nagi Maehashi has called for “personal attacks” online against baking sensation Brooke Bellamy to end after she accused her of plagiarism.
On Tuesday, Maehashi claimed that Bellamy – founder of Brooki Bakehouse – had copied her recipes for Caramel Slice and Baklava in Bestsellers Cookbook with Brooki.
Nagi Maehashi says that the caramel disc recipe in baking with Brooki (right) is similar to her own (left). ((Delivered: eat recipe))
She placed Side-by-Side screenshots of the ingredients, quantities and instructions from the two books, and claimed that the similarities came down on plagiarism.
The American baker Sally McKenny, also known as Sally’s baking addiction, then claimed that one of her recipes was plagued in Bellamy’s book.
Bellamy has refuted these claims and claims that “she does not copy the recipes from other people”, adding that the situation had become “extremely overwhelming”.
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In a video posted on Instagram on Thursday evening, Maehashi begged people to “stop the trolling” of Bellamy.
“I know I made serious allegations,” she said.
“But this does not justify the personal attacks I have seen online against Brooke Bellamy.
“I don’t support it and I ask you to stop.”
Nagi Maehashi claims that two of her recipes in the container were plagued with Brooki Cookbook. ((Monkey: Jono Searle))
‘Keep it respectful’
Maehashi acknowledged that it was a “very small percentage” of people who attacked Bellamy online.
“Share your opinion, have heated debates, support Brooki, support me, disagree with both of us, we think we are pathetic,” she said.
“But just keep it respectful.
“No trolls, no hateful comments.“
Nagi Maehashi has called to an end to ‘personal attacks’ by Bellamy. ((Photo: Alan Benson))
Maehashi emphasized that this was a “business dispute”, and its legal accusations against Penguin Random House Australia, which published Bellamy’s book.
“We must be respect for this,” she said.
The ABC reported on Thursday that Bellamy had been dropped as an ambassador for a program to learn to learn girls “as an entrepreneur” after the claims of the plagiarism.
In response to the allegations, Bellamy said that her recipes “have been created for many years”.
She added that she had made and sold her caramel slice for four years before Maehashi posted the recipe in 2020.
“Although baking has room for creativity, much of it is a precise science and she is necessarily formal,” she said in a statement.
“Many recipes will certainly share common steps and measures: if they don’t, they just don’t work.“
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