Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Now, how does this happen, exactly??
It is a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” to be added to the dish, AFP reported Saturday.
Penguin Group Australia pulped and reprinted about 7,000 copies of “Pasta Bible” after the typographical error was found in the ingredients for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Ah, I see…
Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book called for salt and freshly ground black pepper but a misprint occurred on just one page, probably as a result of a computer’s spellchecker program.
“When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable,” [head of publishing Bob] Sessions said.
Well, I’m not so sure about that last one, but at least a plausible explanation has been supplied. It started out “freshly ground black pepper” and then the spellchecker recognized “people” and not “pepper.”
Now, I don’t know exactly what special custom dictionaries are loaded up when you go through proofreading a cookbook. But “pepper”? I’d just expect that to be in there somewhere.
Still and all, it’s a relief this matter was settled before anyone said something stupid to make it worse.
“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know…” [emphasis mine]
Oops. Someone got a little too close to the action, can’t see the forest for the trees.
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- Cassy Fiano | 04/18/2010 @ 07:42So far as I have ever read, the only people who have ever eaten ground black people are black people. What is the problem?
- jamzw | 04/18/2010 @ 10:08