Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

BBC News ^ | April 17, 2010 | unknown

[DukeBillie]

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

(snip)

"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.

(snip)

If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.

[firebrand]

My favorite cookbook typo of all time: “It’s a superb cake, rich and maoist.”

[null and void]

Excellent!

[Salvey]

Stick an “erratum” in every issue and be done with it.

[rmlew]

Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear
Either the British use different rules than we Americans regarding verb-adverb agreement, or the title of this piece has a grammatical misprint. In the states it would read "Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dearly"

[DukeBillie]

rmlew - I thought the same thing when I read it but since we aren’t suppose to change the title, I left it. But it was really hard not to add that -ly.