A federal judge Thursday tossed out a cookbook author's claim that comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife was a culinary copycat when she came out with her own book explaining how to entice children to eat vegetables. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain threw out the lawsuit brought against ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit that accused Jerry Seinfeld of defamation and his wife Jessica Seinfeld of plagiarism in her top-selling cookbook was tossed out by a federal judge on Thursday. The suit, filed last year by cookbook author Missy Chase Lapine, claimed Jessica Seinfeld copied her book that explores how to sneak healthy foods into kids' diets. It also ...

Missy Chase Lapine's newest cookbook includes a chapter on holiday recipes, but in her kitchen, every day is April Fool's Day. Her first book, "The Sneaky Chef," laid out the basics of her approach to feeding finicky kids: hiding vegetable purees in their favorite foods to increase nutritional content and decrease dinner table tension. The followup, "The Sneaky ...

An author who claims Jerry Seinfeld's wife plagiarized her cookbook says she wasn't amused by jokes the comedian made last year on late-night television. In federal court papers filed Tuesday explaining her position for a December hearing, Missy Chase Lapine said her 7-year-old daughter was upset after Seinfeld joked ...