'Dessert First' pastry star Anne Thornton has been sliced off Food Network faster than you can say cake. Why? Because she's been accused of stealing her recipes from cookbooks and chefs like the Barefoot Contessa and Martha Stewart. Her Sweetness Anne Thornton has got a lot of 'splainin' to do. The higher-ups at the Food Network have discovered several of her recipes from both her first and second season of Dessert First are almost exact replicas from other chefs' recipes, and therefore, had no choice but to give her the boot. "The network discovered the similarities during the second season of the show," a source told the New York Post on Feb. 15. "They went back and reviewed her first season, and discovered what looked like copying then, too." For instance, The Post cites Anne's German Chocolate Cupcakes are scarily similar to Martha Stewart's 2009 Coconut-Pecan Frosting. The only difference?...
- 2/16/2012
- by HL Staff
- HollywoodLife
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