From The New York Daily News…
Penguin Group Australia forced to reprint ‘Pasta Bible’ over ‘salt and freshly ground black people’
By Soraya Roberts
Daily News Staff Writer
An Australian publishing company must fork over a large amount of cash for a typo that appeared in one of its recently released cookbooks.
Penguin Group Australia had to reprint its “Pasta Bible” last week after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of pepper, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Penguin had to cook up $18,000 to reprint 7,000 copies of the recipe book.
Head of publishing, Bob Sessions, told the Herald that the “Pasta Bible” would not be recalled as it would be “extremely hard” to do so.
According to Sessions, pepper was spelled correctly every other time it appeared in the book’s 150 recipes. The misprint only occurred once — in a recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.
“We’ve said to bookstores that if anyone is small minded enough to complain about this very … silly mistake then we will happily replace [the book] for them,” Sessions told the newspaper.
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