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Two weeks ago, Cooks Source was just a tiny regional New England food magazine. Then its editor stole a freelancers article and haughtily dismissed her protests, drawing the internet's wrath. Now, it seems you people may have killed Cooks Source.

Cooks Source, the tiny magazine that set the internet aflame by stealing a writer's work and then haughtily brushing off her protests, has finally—belatedly!—issued an apology. Of sorts.

Yesterday, a bit of plagiarism at an obscure regional food magazine blew up the internet. Cooks Source editor Judith Griggs' haughty dismissal of a writer she stole from earned her four kabillion brickbats. She's apologized! Not very well, though. [UPDATED]

Writer Monica Gaudio was surprised to see an old article of hers appear in Cooks Source, a "publication for food lovers in Western New England." So she wrote the magazine's editor to ask how they got it. The reply: insanity.