Publisher Destroys Copies Of New Cookbook Over Misprint

The Australian division of Penguin is destroying thousands of copies of a new cookbook because of a misprint on one page. The Pasta Bible listed "salt and freshly ground black people" as two of the ingredients in a recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto. No, that would be "salt and freshly ground black pepper," as in many other recipes in the book, but somebody didn't catch the error. Read more here and here.