McCain Family Recipes

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.

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"

• John McCain 2008: Cindy's Recipes
  • This is a Google cached version of the now-removed recipe page from McCain's official site.
• Topix.net: McCain Family Recipes
• Google News: McCain Family Recipes
• The New York Times: Family Recipes, Passed Down From One Site to Another (April 16, 2008)
• WashingtonPost.com: Bloggers Find Something Fishy in McCain Site's "Family Recipes" (April 16, 2008)
• ABC News: Political Radar: McCain Website Pilfers "Family Recipes" (April 15, 2008)
• Yankee Magazine: Cindy McCain's 3-Minute No-Bake Cookies Recipe

• Huffington Post: David Weiner: McCain "Family Recipes" Lifted from the Food Network (April 14, 2008)

• Wonkette: Cindy McCain Stole Recipes From Innocent Quakers (April 15, 2008)

• The Fact Checker (WashingtonPost.com): Cindy's Recipegate (April 15, 2008)

• Al's Blog: Cindy McCain is a serial recipe thief! (April 15, 2008)

• The Swamp: McCain camp's borrowed recipes (April 14, 2008)

• TMZ: McCain Intern -- Chef Boyarthief (April 15, 2008)

• Google Blog Search: McCain Family Recipes

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