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The editor of the cooking magazine has allegedly been scraping other material, as well:

At present, people seem to have found matches between Cooks Source articles and the Martha Stewart website; The Food Network; NPR; the website of Boots (the chemist); Alternet; Weight Watchers; and a website owned by Disney.

http://howpublishingreallyworks.com/?p=3450




The most complete listing of Cooks Source plagiarism I've seen so far, including stolen images and at least seven specific Food Network recipes:

http://www.edrants.com/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazi...

One source at Food Network stated their legal department is looking into it.


There's a rapidly growing list on their Facebook discussion page citing all kinds of ripped-off articles and their original sources.

One does NOT fuck with Oprah.


Well... There will be a smoking crater where their offices used to be.




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