How did they get to be that way?
I was born into a different America and was a child of my times until I learned enough to grow up. I do not propose myself as an example, because I was carried along with my society as it awkwardly felt and fought its way out of racism.
I’ve long thought that Roger Ebert is an exceedingly classy gentleman. Here he is again, being just that.
Cookbook misprint costs Australian publishers dear.
So, a publisher in Australia managed to publish a cookbook with a recipe that called for “salt and freshly ground black people”.
Oops.
I’m sure I would have had much more sympathy for said publisher, though, had he not been quoted as saying, “[W]hy anyone would be offended, we don’t know”, and “proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task”.
I don’t know, I might not buy books from a publisher that finds it very difficult not to accidentally advocate grinding up black people.
