Missy Chase Lapine
The author of The Sneaky Chef thinks Jerry Seinfeld’s wife could be hiding something, said Deirdre Donahue in USA Today. One week after Jessica Seinfeld’s book on tricking children into eating nutritiously, Deceptively Delicious, rocketed to No. 1 on various best-seller lists, Missy Chase Lapine started telling reporters that many of Seinfeld’s recipe ideas sounded suspiciously familiar. Tricking your children by mixing avocado into their chocolate pudding? Lapine’s The Sneaky Chef promoted the same concoction six months ago. Adding puréed spinach to their brownies? Ditto. “There are at least 15 of my recipes that ended up in her book,” Lapine says. The self-described “mompreneur” wouldn’t comment on whether she’s considering legal action against Seinfeld’s publisher, HarperCollins, which rejected Lapine’s cookbook proposal last year. But she admits to being “concerned and troubled” that Seinfeld was welcomed as a culinary pioneer in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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