An obituary on Monday about Sheila Lukins, a co-author of “The Silver Palate Cookbook,” which helped introduce many Americans to simple, highly flavored cooking, referred incorrectly to the book’s recipe for ratatouille, which a book editor said had too much garlic in an earlier version. The published recipe calls for two tablespoons of minced garlic, not the 25 cloves that were in the earlier version. Link
If you’ve tried making James Yant’s carrot cake and it didn’t come out right, you’ve got the perfect excuse: The recipe that appeared in Monday’s Hernando Times should have called for 2 cups of flour, and the icing should be made with only one stick of margarine. Yant, who concocted the cake 20 years ago by tinkering and pulling ideas from other recipes, said he erred in providing his creation from memory. Though it’s not his fault: A reporter kept chatting with him as he tried to write it down. "You were asking a lot of questions," he told the Times.
Does humble pie have swedes in it? Hereabouts it does. We’re sorry if you tried to make a swede cake based on the recipe we published on Saturday, because it wouldn’t have gone well. A production error sabotaged the recipe. We contrived to merge the last three items, which should have run with the following quantities: 1 cup oil, 1/2 cup sultanas, 1 cup crushed pineapple with juice.
Correction: In the May 2009 Liquidity column Dale Degroff’s recipe for the Stone Pole was printed without its chief ingredient, 1/2 ounce of Zubrowka vodka. Out regrets the error.
In Monday’s Spectator, the Ginger Cake with Macerated Fruit and Lemon Mascarpone incorrectly listed 2 cups of cooked penne pasta as an ingredient. It should have said rice pasta. The recipe is for Celiac Awareness Month.We apologize for the error. 
The recipe for Dora Fegelman’s Matzo Meal Popovers in Wednesday’s Passover food story incorrectly called for 3/4 cup of salt. The measurement should be 3/4 teaspoon.
A report yesterday about petrol prices rising to $8 a litre within 10 years incorrectly stated that freight costs could add 3c to the average price of a loaf of bread. The correct figure is 31c. This was a sub- editor’s error.
The recipe for Irish Whiskey Cake in the April 30 Food section called for an incorrect amount of whiskey in the glaze. It should be 1 cup, not 1 tablespoon. 
The recipe for Simple Chocolate Cake that appeared in yesterday’s Abode section omitted a key ingredient – sugar. The cake calls for 1 cup.
Food Editor Tommy Simmons says she misunderstood her friend Sara Lemon’s instructions on how to make a banana microwave snack. Simmons mistakenly reported in her Table Talk column in Food, Jan. 24, that Lemon cooked the whole banana in its skin in the microwave for 2 ½ minutes on full power. Lemon said she peels the banana, removing the skin, before cooking it in the microwave for 2 ½ minutes on full power. The Advocate regrets the error.
A recipe Sunday in the Entrée section for Muskego Lakes Country Club Greenbriar Stuffed Chicken misstated the amount of diced onion to be used. The recipe calls for 1/8 cup of finely diced yellow onion, not 8 cups.
A recipe for hot water shortcrust pastry in a baking supplement distributed with the newspaper on November 24 (page 84, The Guardian guide to baking) required boiling water to be added to melted lard. We should have made clear that it is dangerous to overheat the lard. The recipe containing revised instructions can be found on the website at lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/baking 
On page E7 of Wednesday’s Food & Life section, a recipe for Hummingbird Carrot Cake reprinted from the cookbook “A Passion for Baking” left out an ingredient. There should be 3/4 cup grated carrots, to be stirred in along with the pecans and banana.Editor
What I'm Reading
- Jayson Blair Addresses W&L Journalism Ethics Institute :: Washington and Lee Universitywlu.edu | November 6, 2009
- Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs Defining what's good in digital journalismJournalism 2.0 | November 5, 2009
- New York Times Goofs, Includes Editor's Internal Notes In iPhone News Article (NYT, AAPL)Silicon Alley Insider | November 4, 2009
- The Public Editor - Recession, Revolution and a Leaner Times - Op-Ed - NYTimes.comThe New York Times | November 1, 2009"Now, with an around-the-clock news cycle, reporters file throughout the day, and copy can be edited over a smoother cycle, she said. That is the goal, but the editing staff is dealing with much more copy than before, some online articles are now read by a single editor instead of four or five, and I hear regularly from readers complaining about errors in grammar, spelling and word usage."
- Reuters Editors Blog Archive Are we now too speedy for our own good? | Blogs |Reuters UK | October 27, 2009
- Newspapers want readers' help with Web credibility | Business news | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleHouston Chronicle | October 30, 2009
- Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism - NYTimes.comThe New York Times | October 28, 2009
- The Future of Publishing? Trust and Curation, Says the Founder of Craigslist The Scholarly KitchenThe Scholarly Kitchen | October 26, 2009
- Bob Sutton: Reducing Interruptions and Saving Lives: New Study on Drug Treatment Errorsbobsutton.typepad.com | October 28, 2009Very good lessons here for journalists as well.
- 25 things journalists can do to future-proof their careers | Blog | EconsultancyEconsultancy | August 26, 2009
- Jayson Blair Addresses W&L Journalism Ethics Institute :: Washington and Lee University
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