Jerry Seinfled went on the attack to defend his wife’s book, Deceptively Delicious, and called author and chef Missy Lapine “another kind of nut” and implied that she was a “wacko and celebrity stalker”. His fervent defense of his wife might cost him a few dollars. The suit alleges Jessica Seinfeld copied Missy Lapine’s book, The Sneaky Chef, and Jerry Seinfeld engaged in defamation.
We blogged about the similarities a while back. The similarities between pre publication drawing of the Seinfled book and the published Sneaky Chef book always bothered me.
A couple of weeks ago I saw the Lapine book in a Pottery Barn Kids (of all places) and skimmed through it because it was a very novel way to get my persnickity 3-year-old to eat good food. I didn’t have the money to purchase it at the time, but then I saw that it was repackaged at Wal-Mart. I picked up the Wal-Mart copy and started reading through it and realized that it wasn’t the same book! I was very surprised to say the least because the cover copy read almost the same so I thought it was just a repackaged version of The Sneaky Chef.