Racist Typo in Cookbook a Costly Mistake

Published on Monday, April 19, 2010, by Lessley Anderson / Edit Post

Penguin has to reprint 7,000 copies of its cookbook, The Pasta Bible, in Australia after a racist typo was discovered, reported the New York Daily News. In a recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, the instructions called for "salt and freshly ground black people." The cost of the reprint is $18,000—whoah whoah whoah. Was this a case of AutoCorrect gone seriously wrong? Apparently in other recipes, freshly-ground pepper was the finishing seasoning of choice.

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  • I think the problem here is that people are bored

  • What we need now is a youtube style internet feud going on. People need to get REALLY angry on this thread...

  • I Tried the recipe before they made the changes... Oops!.....

  • A sprinkling of Asian People. We never really get as mixed up in these racism crises so I'm adding us now.

  • Nothing to see here, move on.

  • everyone is making a big deal over nothing. it was a typo. big deal.

  • I prefer to use freshly ground WHITE "people". Is that racist?

  • Speaking of typos in cookbooks, I'm the proud owner of a vegetarian cookbook "The complete vegetarian cookbook" with a recipe for leek parcels calling for 4 slices of ham which is bad enough, but they even put a big glossy color photo of it on page 214. Can you imagine the bad day at the office the editor (one Susie Ward) must have had when someone pointed that out for the first time LOL.

  • Enough is enough. First it was the Confederate flag, which had nothing to do with slavery, do your history lesson. The first slaves of the white man was the American Indian, but because they knew the land better than the white's they always escaped with ease, the black man was brought to this country, acquired from other blacks in Africa that sold them to the white man. Now everything is racist....+READ

    Enough is enough. First it was the Confederate flag, which had nothing to do with slavery, do your history lesson. The first slaves of the white man was the American Indian, but because they knew the land better than the white's they always escaped with ease, the black man was brought to this country, acquired from other blacks in Africa that sold them to the white man. Now everything is racist. There was a mountain in North Carolina named N----r Mountain for at least 100 years, but some one complained of the name and it was changed, it is only a word, look it up in the dictionary, at it applies to all races. I am part American Indiam, I've been called half-breed and honestly it only made me more proud of my Indian ancestory, even if I did split their ignoramt skulls. So, I must say to the black people, who have been riding this slavery train, get off and live like regular americans, the only way you are an African-American is if you came directly from Africa, not through your great,great, great grand daddy, you are an American only.-COLLAPSE

  • digkv - hilarious!

  • digkv....what?

  • Actually, it is racist. Ground black people is racist because back in the Jim Crow era, when African Americans were refused suffrage rights through certain tests. One of the tests was to be able to grind a jackrabbit into a fine powder then make crack cocaine out of it. It was of course, nearly impossible to do and the one successful black man, Homer Plessy was still denied his right. Plessy v....+READ

    Actually, it is racist. Ground black people is racist because back in the Jim Crow era, when African Americans were refused suffrage rights through certain tests. One of the tests was to be able to grind a jackrabbit into a fine powder then make crack cocaine out of it. It was of course, nearly impossible to do and the one successful black man, Homer Plessy was still denied his right. Plessy v. Ferguson of course made it so that the tests became separate but equal, thus, both whites and blacks would have both been required to grind up jackrabbits but it was removed after the case was enforced. After that, every time a black person would try to do something that the whites disapproved of, they called them "groundies".

    or that typo was not racist at all and just a mere description of someone not white is suddenly considered racist.-COLLAPSE

  • I understand how it's a mistake and a typo.
    How is the typo racist? Don't see how the mere mention of Black People is racist.
    Racism has intent behind it, a typo does not.
    I suggest you change the title of the story. Calling a typo racist is an insult to true victims of racism.

  • Would love to have a copy of the misprinted book!