U.S. Senate candidiate Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., submitted recipes to a cookbook that purported to collect Native American recipes, but her some of her submissions appear to be plagiarized, according to a new report.

It’s the kind of story that — in addition to the dubious claims about Warren’s Cherokee ancestry — threaten to turn her campaign into a punch line. Breitbart News reports that two recipes were published in the New York Times in 1979, and apparently originated at the famous French restaurant in Manhattan, Le Pavillon:

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