A misprint? Or a subtle racial missive?

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to equality, which is why when we see subtle discrimination passed off as "mistakes" or "typographical errors" we are generally quite suspicious. While we understand that it may have been a mistake, this cookbook that instructs readers to add freshly ground black people to your tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, we suspect that someone had an agenda, especially since the only way we got our spell checker to suggest "people" instead of "pepper" was when we spelled it "peeple" and anyone knows that while e and r are next to each other on the traditional keyboard l is on the other side entirely. I guess it's possible that the writer was using the Dvorak layout, where r and l are neighbors, but since nobody uses the Dvorak layout that seems unlikely.