Cookbook for sale. Price £100. Just don't try to pick it up
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's massive new tome offers recipes containing such delights as spray-dried carrot powder.

Vanessa Thorpe and Hannah Gousy writing in The Observer,
Sunday October 5 2008

If you want to put on a stone (6.3kg) in weight, this is the cookbook for you. Retailing at an astonishing £100, Heston Blumenthal's lavish new volume of recipes registers more than 12lb on the bathroom scales. And that is without its silver, duck feather-embossed box.
What may be the most exclusive cookbook ever produced goes on sale this month, featuring 516 pages of fabulously photographed, jewel-like dishes that bear as much relation to the cuisine of the nation as Vivienne Westwood's clothes do to those on the rails at Next. These are not recipes for those with a modest galley kitchen either, since the book is almost as wide as a standard-sized hob.

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Read here about The Fat Duck Restaurant , rated one of the top 50 restaurants in the world.

And a Guardian blogger has his say about the massive tome.

Footnote:

NZ publication date 20 October. RRP including gst $340.