Seriously? Elizabeth Warren May Have Plagiarized ‘Pow Wow Chow’ Recipe Submissions
- Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:30pm by
Becket Adams
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Okay, okay, we promise we’ll take a break from Elizabeth Warren stories — but we really have to do this one last report.
The Blaze reported on Wednesday that the Massachusetts senatorial candidate has offered some pretty flimsy evidence to prove her Cherokee Indian heritage. One of the weaker proofs she has offered is the fact that her cousin Candy Rowsey once edited an obscure 1984 cookbook titled “Pow Wow Chow.”
Then The Blaze reported yesterday that the former “Native American” Harvard Law professor actually contributed five recipes to said cookbook. The book also bills her as a Cherokee.
Image courtesy Buzzfeed
And just in time for the weekend, we bring you the latest in the continuing saga of “fauxcahontas”: Warren didn’t just contribute to the cookbook, but she may have even plagiarized a couple of the recipes, Breitbart’s Michael Patrick Leahy reports.
“The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes,” Leahy writes.
But which recipes did she allegedly rip-off and where’s the proof? You see, unlike Warren’s Cherokee heritage claims, allegation of this sort have to be backed up with something a bit more concrete than, say, “family lore.”
So where’s the proof?
“The two recipes, ‘Cold Omelets with Crab Meat’ and ‘Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing,’ appear in an article titled ‘Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,’ written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News,” Leahy reports.
The “Pow Wow Chow” recipe for “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat” contains “all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients,” Leahy points out.
Here are Franey’s recipes as they appeared in 1979.
“More significantly,” he adds, “her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article.”
Here are Warren’s recipes as they appear in “Pow Wow Chow.”
(Images courtesy: Boston Herald)
Huh. That’s weird. According to “Pow Wow Chow,” all the recipes were passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe. Yet, somehow, it appears two of the recipes may have originated at Le Pavilion, “a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan,” as Leahy describes it.
But perhaps the bigger question here is this: where, exactly, did 19th-century Cherokee Indians all the way out in the plains of Oklahoma acquire a taste for Worcestershire sauce and “imported mustard”?
But wait! There’s more!
Warren’s “Herbed Tomatoes” recipe may have been copied from a 1959 Better Homes and Garden recipe, according to Leahy.
“Ms. Warren ‘s campaign has not commented on the suggestion that she may have plagiarized her recipe contributions to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook,” the Breitbart article adds.
“Sales of the Pow Wow Chow have heated up on Amazon since this controversy began, vaulting from a lowly 1.2 million ranking book to number 11,289 early this morning.”
Okay. As promised, we’re done with Warren stories for now (or until she does something else that makes us laugh).
(H/T: Washington Free Beacon)
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Comments (49)
therizzo357
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 1:23amHey guys give her a break. I’m sure she eats mutton and blood sausage all the time. I‘m sure she’s on the reservation butchering and cutting a sheep‘s throat while it’s still alive so it’ll bleed out to make blood sausage. My ex for over seven years is full-blooded Indian Navajo and my niece and nephew are have Navajo. This whole thing makes me sick. Besides I have never met a white person that didn’t claim to be part Cherokee matter-of-fact I’m as white as they come and I think I may be related to her I am part Cherokee as well maybe it could be possible.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 7:44amRumor is that Lizzie is collaborating with Barry on a new recipe book
Bow Wow Chow- His favorite Dog Recipe’s
Report Post »Mexican- Made with yappy Chihuahua’s
Chinese-Made with wrinkly Sharpei’s
German-Made with vicious Shepards
crusaderx9
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 10:56amdog eating savage community organizer squatting on the dirt floor of elizabeth warren’s wigwam enjoying a bowl of K9 stew – then the both of these anarchist hippy lying sacks smoking the “pipe”…
A National Embarrassment…
Report Post »junglemom9
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 2:32pmToo funny! I am 1/8th Cherokee and some other kind of Indian. My family didn’t make the march to Oklahoma, but hid out back in Kentucy. Since my family didn’t do that, I am not on the roles and most of my family choose to hide the fact that they had Indian blood. Unfortunately, the Cherokee Nation will not honor DNA testing to prove a relationship. All said though can EW prove anything other than she likes Crab and can read? So glad I don’t live in MA! It is sad that we have to deal with those that must embelish their history as well as being bad leaders! Alot of that in Washington these days..
Report Post »okredstate
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 12:00amAttention Mass> If you elect this pitiful excuse for a human being, you will be the laughing stock of the country. With John Kerry already is the senate, if you elect Pauxcohhantas, you will have the two most worthless individuals in the country. What an absolute joke this bimbo is.
Report Post »Suzanne D
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 2:44amObviously, The Blaze has yet to add the word “Fauxcahontas” to its spell checker …….
Report Post »scudster
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:09pmDidn’t plagiarism used to be against the law? Why is it most elected official’s in the United States are never held accountable. This kind of behavior should be met with stiff consequences. The voting public should be outraged over this.
Report Post »lessoneleg
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:13pmMany years ago a guy sold himself off as “Grey Owl”. He was so good even Native Americans in Canada laughed their backsides off when Grey Owl was pushing native rights and recognition even though good ol’ Grey Owl was in fact an imposter. Natives didn’t protest because good ol Grey Owl was selling a good story which in fact benefited I suppose the Native issues during those times.
Report Post »But, quackery and imposters seems to hold a re-occurring theme. This time Grey Owl has been replaced by Grey Hair, pardon me, Elizabeth Warren. Maybe she‘s been smokin’ them cheap cigarettes out of the Reserve a tad too much.
Taquoshi
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 2:24pmDidn’t that also happen with a book called “Crying Wind”, which was originally offered as a biography, but later discovered to be fiction?
Ever since the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú, whose work turned out to contain a large amount of fiction, I tend to be suspicious of claims that seem to be extensive.
I think Ward Churchill also claimed to be Native American, but wasn’t. “Fauxcahontas” should give him a call.
Report Post »Flannie
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:08pmI know you wanna crucify this woman but let me tell you how recipe issues work. Recipes, by nature, are handed down through friends or family and network their way out into the universe – that is, if they are any good! It’s virtually impossible to copyright recipes because of this. After all, the apparent ‘original’ recipe is just as likely to be a passed-down recipe as the one being claimed as plagiarism.
This is particularly true of all those comb-bound volumes that consist of contributions from schools, churches, etc. They are not even intended to be original sources, just offered for sharing with friends and sold for fundraisers.
She didn’t plagiarize because she never claimed to have created the recipe. She merely shared something out of her recipe box, which is what everyone contributing to those comb-bound recipe books does. We’ve all contributed our favorite recipes to books like that. We didn’t plagiarize either. I have a special baked spaghetti recipe (and dozens of others) that I share with everyone I can – and that’s not plagiarism because it would be impossible to know the true, original source. If you were to examine the other recipes in this book, I’ll bet you would find them elsewhere as well. It’s the nature of that kind of cookbook.
Get on her case about her heritage claims, but this kind of pile-on is petty, vicious and unfair, and makes the accuser look worse that the accused.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on May 19, 2012 at 4:30pmFrom a 2006 Washington Post Article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300316.html
“…U.S. copyright law addresses recipes, but what holds sway can be called either ethics or etiquette. Cooking is not considered inventing; rather, it evolves. Copyright law specifies that “substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions,” such as a cookbook, can be copyrighted but that a mere list of ingredients cannot receive that protection…..”
Heck there is a whole slew of books detailing the recipes of all manner of products, from Twinkies to Big Macs to Oreos. All of them have been deconstructed (reverse engineered) and their recipes published in books and on videos.
That she is a raging communist should be enough to sully her reputation. No need to drag delicious, delicious food in to the fray.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:56pmIn my recipe book ….there are a lot of other peoples recipes. Their names are on the recipe……Janes Xmas cookies etc. with my changes to the recipe as optional. It is unforgivable to take another persons recipe as your own. May be it isnt unforgivable but deceitful anyway. Says something about her ethics if she did. Lotus.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:03pmIs anyone surprised this ‘whatever she is’ has not one original thought to her name. This country can’t afford to have this type of person anywhere near our government–we need some kind of security check/background check/morality standard before anyone can serve in a public office. Oh, did I mention a reading / accounting test?
Report Post »Tom70
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:02pmJust like the rest of this presidents administration and tzars… a la gaza to die for Home Land Security, a looser from the Clintong admin for At Genreral, a doofus who couldn’t do his taxes for the budget and a complete idiot for Vice president. Couple that with B. Frank, C. Dodd, H. Ried and Msssss Pelosie… and you have a cluster ……are we are living the results of that farce called “Hope and Change.”
Report Post »NOw all we get is re-treaded Communist slogans, Brown shirt pep talks, and threats from the New Black panthers. They all propose violence and we as legal American‘s can’t say they are racist fools.
cassandra
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:00pmthe stupitity of this fraud is too much to take
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:56pmYou left out the best part. one of these recipes was said to be the favorite of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor….genuine royalty in fact which puts to the lie that she is really concerned about the common man.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:53pmFace – like -view of- Buffalo running away Heap Big Liar.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:50pmI wouldn’t be surprised if her school work was plagiarized also.
Silly progressives; it always comes back to bite you in end… one bite at a time.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:50pmWhat a ridiculous, pathetic, fraud she is… she will lose might as well put an Obama face on hers.
The leftist’s were spouting Warren and Wisconsin and taking over the house 3 months ago, but now not a leftist will open their mouths over the unmitigated disaster that is Obama, Warren, Biden, and the Soros leftist’s in Wisconsin.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:49pmOkay, Blaze, Scott Brown has multiple ethics complaints against him and you guys keep going on about Elizabeth Warren and what her family believed about itself. If there anything wrong with thinking that your family has Native American members? Is there anything wrong with participating in a cookbook for charity with recipes you enjoy in your home? Is there anything wrong with claiming as much ancestory as the current chief of the Cherokee Nation? You guys are really spinning your wheels over this, but it has nothing to do with the real issues faced by the Senate or the nation in this election. It’s smoke and mirrors and perpetuating it might be considered deceiving your audience in some quarters.
Report Post »brovet
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:02pmIt is pretty significant to misrepresent your heritage! Further, using someone else’s written work without giving them credit is a major no-no for a professor. Either what the Blaze is reporting is correct or incorrect. If it is incorrect let’s hear what you have to say… I know the worst thing you can present a lib with is a fact.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:02pm*TOKYO ROSE…….You just tried, in your hardest idiotic liberal way, you just tried to excuse lying…….you are disturbed to try and spin Warrens actions into anything other than what they are…outright lies…you are delusional Tokyo Rose… I hope you don’t sorround yourself with people, since you excuse lying and have such a tolerance for low moral character, apparently….
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:03pmObvious Troll is obvious.
Report Post »guntotinsquaw
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:04pmWhy yes, the Chief is 1/32 (white government quantum) PROVABLE REGISTERED Cherokee. Warren has ZERO!!
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:17pmDid you get that lame rhetoric from Maddow? Facts are facts she is a liar. Back to the desert with you.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:19pmSo telling the truth is deceiving the audience, 2 + 2 = 5, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:21pmElizabeth Warren lied and committed acts of perjury on an application. Barrack Hussein Obama at the very least lied about where he was born to some, if not all of us. If you were a ridiculous leftist, then you would want Brown to get beat by Warren. If you were a ridiculous leftist then you would be a fool that has an Obama/Clinton sticker on his or her bumper.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 10:05pm@Brovet, Where did she misrepresent her background? What did she profit from it? The cookbook is evidence that the belief in a Native heritage is held across the family and her cousin belongs to an organization that promotes the tribe. Where are your facts? My husband was one of the founding members of an Hispanic professional association. He is of German and Polish Jewish descent. He joined because he represented a lot of Hispanics and wanted to make sure that he represented them correctly. He was welcomed by the group of proud Latinos. One of the others is a sitting Congressman now.
@Markie, So you’re a Marine and at least 13 years my junior. Do I need to remind you of the things the Army says about Marines? I don’t have a tolerance for low character, none of my friends are TeaCons.
@Doom, You can prove that she lied on a job application? She was asked to come to Harvard based on her academic work, there was no application to lie on. If you were a ridiculous rightie you’d post on The Blaze.
As to the rest of you, Guns, Lettuce, and Eleu, I am as free to post on this site as you. Yes, I watch Rachel, she does her research and has an excellent academic background, verses Beck. And one of you seems to have thumbed through a copy of the Cliff Notes of “Nineteen-Eighty-Four”. Oh goody for you. Do you recognize Fox News as MiniTru?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:47pmOh c’mon, y’all, it’s Friday evening and this is hysterical!
Hmmmm……where’s all the atheist trolls telling us how moral people are without God? Lizzie is just another example of how they are so wrong.
ROFL
Report Post »team1blazer
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:47pmTypical looser democrat…can’t even come up with an original recipe. She, like the imposter in chief is an absolute FRAUD.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:46pmThis pitiful woman isn‘t just delusional she’s an absolute idiot to boot.
Woman of color! Hahahahaha.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:46pmHer ancestors would have made her run the gauntlet for a crime like this. You know…have run through a two lines of Indians, who beat her with sticks until she made it to the end.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:44pmAll of those lies Warren told are coming back to bite her………I’m loving it. If the big lies don’t get you the little ones will.
What a way to tumble from on high……..and laughed at all the way down.
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:42pmThe wench will claim she’s 1/32 African American next…. mark my words!
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:41pmThe democrat massholes will run to the polling places and pull the lever for D anyhow. They love the liars and murderers in that state. Twisted people.
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:39pmI’ve lived in Massachusetts and I must say my experience is that the average citizen is for “truth justice and the American way.” I‘m fascinated by what may be the response of Massachusetts women to someone plagiarizing another’s recipes. This might just be the thing that sinks the rickety Warren ship.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:40pmI think we understand that she is a conniver and a fake, but will those who get to vote against her?
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:40pmThis woman is such a phony fraud she can’t even write her own recipes! Does she stand a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected?? Oh, wait, this is MA so I guess so.
Report Post »PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:49pmRe-elected in MA? Why not? the idiots in MA kept re-electing immoral Ted Kennedy. Have stronger words to describe Teddy, but they probably wouldn’t make it past the censors.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:50pmTrue that, PAPA! Their choice for the United States Senate is between a former Playgirl model RINO and a lying fraud. It’s difficult to tell the two apart much less know who to vote for.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:38pmThis ‘lady’ is one sick twisted liar…who ever votes for her, or warps their mind enough to defend her actions/ideology, is certifiably crazy and should be straight jacketed and removed from society asap….
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 7:33pmWarren is a typical obama-democrat.
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