Copies of Makan, a collection of Singaporean recipes by Elizabeth Haigh, have been withdrawn after suggestions that she ‘copied or paraphrased’ another author
A cookbook by former MasterChef contestant and restaurant owner Elizabeth Haigh has been quietly pulled from circulation by its publisher after Haigh was accused of copying recipes by another author.
Haigh’s Makan, a collection of Singaporean recipes, was released by Bloomsbury in May, drawing together “recipes that have been handed down through many generations of her family”, according to the publisher. But after Sharon Wee, who published Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen: Singapore Recipes from My Mother in 2012, said that Haigh’s title “copied or paraphrased” some of her content, it was quietly withdrawn from sale.
