Running Press and Sneaky Chef Author Missy Chase Lapine Respond to Seinfeld's Recent Remarks on the Late Show with David Letterman

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Statement from Running Press:

"As the publisher of The Sneaky Chef we are troubled that a celebrity of Jerry Seinfeld's stature chose to go on the Late Show with David Letterman last night and personally attack the book's author, Missy Chase Lapine.

This controversy arose out of concerns expressed by parents on message boards who noticed that the recent book by Jessica Seinfeld is similar to The Sneaky Chef which was published 6 months earlier. Neither we nor our author have publicly accused anyone of anything."

Statement of Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef:

"It was painful to be called names on national TV when I am just a mom who wrote a cookbook to help parents get their kids to eat well."

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