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Cookbook reprinted after ’freshly ground black people’ typo
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”

Penguin Group Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader should have caught the “silly mistake.”

He told The Sydney Morning Herald for a story printed Saturday that, “We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know.”

The typo was in the “Pasta Bible” recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

Sessions said the publisher would replace the book for any buyer “small-minded enough” to complain. The reprinting will cost 20,000 Australian dollars ($18,500).

There was no answer at Penguin’s offices Sunday.

I knew there was something off about my pasta. I knew mine tasted like cocoa butter and orange soda but I couldn't figure out why. In all seriousness I'm wondering if this was a T9 type computer error or if some prankster writer wanted to see if he could slip a goof in on the editor. Either way I think the head of publishing should be a little more apologetic and stop insinuating that the descendents of a race of people forced into slavery who would bristle at a recipe calling for them to be ground up are small minded. I don't think they should be offended either. It's a silly mistake but Sessions' company is the one who effed up, not the offended buyers.