Apparently, some bloggers have so little time on their hands that they’re examining Cindy McCain’s recipes:
Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain’s wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad as you peruse the recipes on her husband’s campaign Web site.
Or you could have, until yesterday, when that part of the site was taken down after bloggers revealed that several of the “McCain Family Recipes” were, in fact, copied word for word from the Food Network.
Cindy McCain’s tuna recipe was actually developed and submitted to the Food Network by cookbook author and former “Cooking Thin” host Kathleen Daelemans. The recipe for farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms was a “quick pasta classic” from the TV show “Everyday Italian.” That old McCain standby — rosemary chicken — was a creation of TV chef Rachael Ray and was lifted, with a few changes, from the same Food Network site.
All three were listed on a McCain Web page titled “Cindy’s Recipes.”
“Apparently a Web intern added Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds deadpanned yesterday. “He was swiftly dealt with, and the page is down for revision.”
But not quickly enough to avoid becoming the latest “gotcha” of the presidential campaign. McCain’s advisers dismissed the gaffe as irrelevant; it was revealed on the same day that their candidate gave a wide-ranging speech about his economic philosophy.
But it was unearthed as McCain and his rivals — Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton — continued to argue about who is more in touch with working-class Americans, in the wake of Obama’s comments about “bitter” small-town voters at a fundraiser last week.
Even if the recipes had been Cindy McCain’s own, it’s hard to see how the campaign thought it could win over Middle American voters with dishes such as crab scampi served over whole-wheat spaghetti.
I’m not sure which we should be more concerned about. Plagerizing recipes or plagerizing them from Rachel Ray.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
[...] fewer are ready with a wisecrack that turns it into a hilarious net-plus (Washington Post, h/t Below the Beltway, emphasis added): Cindy McCain’s tuna recipe was actually developed and submitted to the Food [...]
April 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Stealing recipes is what American Women have done since they first copied down Franklin’s Navy Bean Soup from Poor Richard’s Almanac.
American Men cook like they drive - without directions!
God Bless Mrs. McCain - American Woman!
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/04/john-mccain-cook-with-me-huffpos-david.html