Australian chef shocked over recipe used by mushroom killer Erin Patterson
killer cook Erin Patterson partially used her recipe when baking a poisonous beef Wellington that killed three people.
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Patterson was found guilty this week of murdering her husband's parents and elderly aunt in 2023 by lacing their Saturday lunch with lethal death cap mushrooms.
She based the dish – poisonous fungi aside – on a recipe by celebrity Australian chef Nagi Maehashi, the author of bestselling cookbooks.
Maehashi said her recipe for the perfect beef Wellington had become 'entangled in a tragic situation'.
'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' she said late on Tuesday on social media.
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Australia's 'mushroom murderer' found guilty of killing in-laws in shocking poison plot
Australia's 'mushroom murderer' found guilty of killing in-laws in shocking poison plot
Throughout a trial lasting more than two months, Patterson maintained the beef-and-pastry dish was accidentally poisoned with death cap mushrooms, the world's most lethal fungus.
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