Freshly ground black pepper, I’m told, adds a little extra something to spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto. If that’s what the cookbook Pasta Bible recommended, its instructions would be uncontroversial. But Pasta Bible, like the original bible, is full of errors and malice. Pasta Bible won’t settle for anything less than freshly ground black people.
The numbers of atrocities an amateur chef would be required to follow is heartbreaking: racial profiling, kidnapping at best and slavery at worst, murder, desecration of corpses, cannibalism, and probably a few health code violations. The book is monstrous, the author is monstrous, and if there was a special kind of hell for cookbooks agitating for racial disharmony, Pasta Bible would be among its first inhabitants.
Publisher Penguin Group Australia claims a mistake was made in the process leading up to the book’s printing. A mistake was made, all right – allowing a culinary Mein Kampf to be printed in the first place.
