Review: What a Gyp -- another accumulation of Internet recipes.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
Here we go again -- lifting recipes off the Internet and trying to pass them off as your own and selling them.  This time, it's by "Jonathan Doue" without benefit of his "M.D." title. Funny thing, while this "author" is busy lifting these recipes off the Internet,  he and his publisher, Encore Books, claim the copyright and WE are not supposed to "amend, distribute, sell, use, quote or paraphrase any part of or any content within this book without the full consent of the author, publishing company, and/'or copyright owner."  But how can these cut and pasters copyright things they  "liberated" from copyrighted web sites becomes the question of honesty.But THEY think they are entitled to lift it off the copyrighted web site such as the "Nutella Oreo Cookies" in this book which is lifted word for word from kirbiecravings.com under date of 4-11-2012, with the title of Double Nutella Oreo Cookies. Thieves not wanting to be "stolen" from has to be some sort of George Carlin comedy routine -- as he used to say, a contradiction in terms."No-Bake Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies" is word for word off thekitchn.com recipe #160655 and not original with this supposed author."Nutella Brownies" is word for word off the web site bunsinmyoven.com and NOT the invention of this rip-off author and his publisher."Crunchy Nutella Cookies" is word for word off the web site recipegoldmine.com and not original with this supposed author."Nutella Almond Cookies"  is word for word recipe #3381622 off food.com submitted by Mrs. H based on a recipe by well known chef Giada De Laurentis' recipe."Nutella Banana Swirl Muffins" is word for word from web site thenovicechefblog.com and not the work or words of this supposed author or publisher."Nutella Fruit Bars with Nuts" is word for word off the Internet site lafujimama.com and not anything originating with either this rip-off  recipe publisher or their possibly fake name author that sometimes is a "doctor" and other times, not so much..And on and on and on it goes.  Lots and lots of cheats selling books they never "wrote" but just cut and pasted off the Internet.  Fake author that is sometimes a "doctor" and sometimes not with a publisher that doesn't seem to mind stealing recipes from other web sites and the people who own those copyrights rather than having authors good enough to write their own original recipes.