Cookbook 'ground black people' typo

SYDNEY – 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 for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a "silly mistake."

The "Pasta Bible" recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.

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

"We've said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this ... silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them."

The reprint will cost Penguin 20,000 Australian dollars ($18,500), but books already in stores will not be recalled because doing so would be "extremely hard," Sessions said.

There was no answer at Penguin's offices Sunday.
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Some comment:
Girl, have a sense of humor. It wasn't done with malice or with the intent to offend people, so why blow it up and make it an issue of race? The company apologized and corrected the mistake, what else do you want? Will public demonstrations and riots with torching of the cookbooks be good enough for you?

Mistakes like this happen all the time, haven't you seen the one on tv about the California wildfires with the close caption "Firefighters have difficulties because of the people ejaculating in the middle of the road" instead of "evacuating in the middle of the road". It's the computerized program's fault. Sheesh.