Guide Note: David Weiner, a blogger on The Huffington Post, has revealed that recipes listed on the official website of presidential candidate John McCain as "McCain Family Recipes" were actually copied verbatim from the website of the Food Network.

Cindy McCain, who was credited on the site with writing the recipes, has now claimed that an unpaid Web intern accidentally uploaded the recipes without checking with her personally.

The recipes included an ahi tuna with Napa cabbage; farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms; a rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad and a passion fruit mousse. Once the plagiarism was announced, the page was removed from the McCain website.

The blog Wonkette has further claimed that McCain has a history of lifting the recipes of others, entering a No-Bake Cookie recipe in a contest for Yankee Magazine that had been provided by the Quaker Oats company in December of 2007. Fast Facts:

1. Recipes written by Cooking Thin host Kathleen Daelemans and Rachael Ray
2. Suggested names for the scandal: "Recipegate," "Farfallegate," "The Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal"

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