Surprise! It’s upside-down cookbook day. 🙃 Printing errors in books are always fun. Maybe that’s because they are rare occurrences. Or because books always seem so straightforward and perfect. Every once in awhile we run across a printing snafu in a cookbook and it’s a great reminder that the kitchen isn’t always perfect and mistakes do happen. Such is the case with this 1981 (27th printing) of Craig Claiborne’s bestselling New York Times Cook Book which was first published in 1961. Causing a little craziness in the dessert section between pages 564- 596, right there in the middle of a Hot Rum Syrup Savarin recipe, the cookbook pages get flipped upside down and organized backwards in so that you have to navigate 32 pages in order to know how to prepare your savarin ingredients. The same happens on the flip side when embarking on another recipe for rum soaked Chocolate Mousse. Oh dear. Relief comes at page 597 though as everything gets sorted out and the cookbook returns back to normal. It’s a fun flaw. Perhaps the printer sampled one too many cups of rum in the production of this one:) None of this really matters though. This cookbook is too beloved and too interesting and too fantastic to succumb to any criticisms. It has sold millions of copies in its lifetime and made international cooking an unintimidating and accessible activity for all home cook adventurers. If anything, this particular version, flaws and all, just makes it all the more endearing. Find it coming to the shop today. 🙂 - - - #printingerror #rarebook #newyorktimes #newyorktimesfood #craigclaiborne #nytimescooking #typos #kitchenclassics #inthevintagekitchen #beloved https://www.instagram.com/p/BzI4sgwAIZs/?igshid=1qf7m47vl68w1