Penguin Books Australia Pulps Pasta Bible Cookbook - Racist Typo

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Publisher Pulps Pasta Bible Over Offensive Typo

Book Publishers Penguin Australia have had to pulp 7,000 copies of the cookbook The Pasta Bible after a mistake was printed giving a recipe for for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people".

Bob Sessions of Penguin Australia said: "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don't know."

The recipe should have read "salt and freshly ground pepper" a phrase used throughout the cookbook in many other recipes and Sessions puts the mistake down to poor proof reading and possibly a computer spell checking mistake.

The mistake will cost the company 20,000 Australian dollars that's $3,300 a letter.

The books are already on sale in shops at $20 each and these will not be recalled but anyone purchasing the book and finding it offensive can claim a refund or a copy of the reprinted book although Bob Sessions says that he feels that people taking offence would be "small minded".