Pastry chef Nick Malgieri was scrolling through a food blog when he came upon a recipe for panettone, a puffy sweet bread that the author said conjured up fond memories of Christmases spent with his Italian grandmother.
However, it quickly became clear that the instructions were all too familiar.
“I started reading the recipe and I said: ‘This is my recipe,’” he said in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
Malgieri’s unpleasant experience was unfortunately not a one-time thing. After decades of work and 12 published cookbooks, the US expert baker has seen his work all over the Internet reproduced without his consent