Dishing up Fury: Who Holds the Patent on Mac ‘n Cheese and Cauliflower?

In this kitchen corner is Jessica Seinfeld, wife of mega millionaire funnyman Jerry Seinfeld, author of "Deceptively Delicious," and a woman with expensive taste in shoes. (Jessica’s no slouch in kissing up, and we do mean UP!, as she ditched her first wealthy husband Eric Nederlander weeks into the marriage after meeting Jerry at a health spa, and then showered Talk Show Prophet (oops, did we mean profit?) Oprah Winfrey with 21 pairs of the world’s most expensive footwear, Christian Louboutins, after appearing on O’s show to tout her book. )

In that corner of the kitchen is Missy Chase Lapine, author of "The Sneaky Chef," former publisher of Eating Well magazine and the founder of a natural baby bath line BabySpa. Note two things we can’t tell you about Missy in an instant: we don’t know who her husband is, but surely he isn’t worth the hundreds of millions that Jerry is. Nor do we know what type of shoes she wears.

We CAN comment on the faux brouhaha that has erupted like an overcooked souffle: Who stole who’s BRILLIANT idea to come up with sneaking veggies in carbs to serve those picky two-foot-high tyrants called children? My response: Duh, who cares? I doubt there’s a parent who’s walked the Earth who hasn’t tried to hide broccoli florets in macaroni and cheese, or peas in tomato soup. Neverthless, we have a marketing scheme whipped up somewhere: a concocted fury over the alleged plagiarism of some cockamamee kids’ recipes.

Seriously, folks, (and you Jerry), let’s all stop fingering the ‘other person’ as the ‘wackoo’ and recognize an unimportant morsel of a story when we see one. All we really need to understand is that Jessica had better connections so that is why her book got more of a push in the public marketplace. Jessica, it turns out, is a better pucker-upper. That’s how this world works, right? Now let’s all turn our attention to turning all this hot air into a substitute for oil, and not the cooking kind.