Publisher pulls Singaporean cookbook ‘Makan’ amid plagiarism allegations

This week, Bloomsbury withdrew the book from circulation, according to another author, who claimed that Haigh had “copied or paraphrased” recipes and other passages from her own 2012 family memoir. Sharon Wee, author of “Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen,” posted a statement on social media saying that she had been “distressed” to see content in “Makan” that had been lifted from her book, in which she had re-created “my mother’s personalized recipes, interviewed older relatives, researched my Nonya heritage, and recounted my family history.”