Notice a plagiarized post? Tell us about it in the comments

Those fishy folks at Fish Creek House, they're just darn hard to keep up with! Every time I check in to see what plagiarized prose they've posted again, it's almost overwhelming. It would be practically a full time job for any one person just to document the amount of plagiarism coming out of the Fish Creek House blogs.

So, how about this? For anyone who is as annoyed by these yoyos as I am, if you see a post of theirs with evidence of plagiarism in it, just mention it in the comments. Include the URL for the Fish Creek House blog post, and the URL for the website that it most looks like they took the content from. That way we'll just keep a running list, here in the comments.

Just like Pooh? I dunno, does Pooh STEAL?

From FCH - "Fear is Your Friend", posted Monday, May 5, 2008 on the INNside blog:

That’s the secret. We are all scared, just like Pooh. But when we tell people about our fears, those fears seem a lot smaller. You can start right now. Try taking one small fear, doesn’t matter what it is, and write it down. If you want, you can share it by writing about it in the comments after this post. Write down whatever comes to mind when you think of the fear. Give it a try. I will bet that you will notice a difference, even if you only write about a “little” fear.

looks like it was taken from

How Winnie the Pooh Helped Me Find Courage by Scott Davis.

word for word.

Bread in the Woods

Here's a classic Fish Creek post. Take someone else's recipe and their words and pass it off as your own, without even an acknowledgement of where it came from.

Take this article on making bread posted July 29th, 2006:


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http://fishcreekhouse.blogspot.com/2006/07/bread-in-woods.html

See the paragraph, "steamed breads are so versatile"?

Now look at the article and recipe from Dennis Weaver of the Prepared Pantry, copyright 2004:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Steamed-Bread:-Apricot-Date-Nut-Bread-with-Caramel-Sauce&id=25710

Why. Why can't these Fish Creek people just make up their own stuff? Why do they feel compelled to raid the Internet and take credit for other people's work?

"Brunch. What a fabulously promising word..."

The fabulous Clothilde of Chocolate and Zucchini wrote that. In February 2005. And her accompanying recipe for Muffins Banane Pécan (aka Banana Pecan Muffins) looks lovely, doesn't it?

Lovely enough, apparently, for Fish Creek House to post this in their Fish Creek House Bed and Breakfast sample recipes: "Brunch. What a fabulously promising word..." and several other distinctly Clothilde sentences.

The title of the entry? Morning is for Muffins. Clothilde's Banana Pecan Muffins, to be exact. And her photo.

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