6. The Pasta Bible: $20,000
If the rest of the mistakes from this list were little and not a big of a deal, this one is truly disturbing.
In The Pasta Bible cookbook printed by Penguin Australia in 2010, a recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto went bad.
How? Simple. As one of the recipe ingredients, “freshly ground black people” was called for seasoning the dish.
The cookbook offended more people than a veggie senses.
The printing never recalled the books with the errors but they quickly destroyed the 7,000 books from their inventory.
A recall on all the copies already sold would have been next to impossible. The mistake went down in the books as possibly the worst misprint of all time.
