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Last week on "Good Morning America," Emeril Lagasse accused show host Charlie Gibson (who was not present at the time) of stealing one of his recipes. This might not have been a big deal if the dish -- a chicken enchilada casserole -- had not become the most popular recipe on GMA's Web site. Today Gibson struck back in the blogosphere, defending his culinary prowess and questioning why the renowned Emeril would want to take credit for a recipe based on canned chili, canned tomato sauce and canned enchilada sauce topped with Doritos.
Leaving aside the well-known fact that Doritos are delicious -- especially the Cool Ranch variety, but let's not get distracted here -- as a casserole cookbook author, I'm inclined to take Gibson's side on this one.
Gibson claims he got the recipe from a friend before he ever knew Emeril. And I believe him. I grew up thinking my mom's green-bean casserole was hers. It was creamy on the inside, crunchy on the outside and all-round delicious. Of course my mother had created it! Except she hadn't. When I began to make it myself, I learned it was the Durkee onion can recipe.
According to the U.S. Copyright Office, "Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection."
In layman's terms: Step off, Emeril.
As Gibson said, "You do your fancy stuff with radicchio, cilantro, hearts of palm -- all the time kicking it up a notch with your fancy-schmancy secret powders -- and leave the blue collar cooking to us regular folks."
And pass us the Doritos while you're at it.
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4-18-2009 @1:56PM Leslie said... This would make more sense if it were Sandra Lee making these allegations...since when does emeril ever used canned anything?
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4-18-2009 @9:45PM GL said... That's really the most popular recipe on the GMA site?
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4-20-2009 @11:42AM MH said... Gibson makes $5,000,000 a year and semi-famously imagines $100,000 to be a "middle-class income". "Us regular folks"? Piss off, Charlie.
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