Weighing at 18kg, costing A$625 and coming in at 2,400 pages- this latest gourmet guide isn't your average kitchen cookbook.
New book weighs as much as small child
Reported $10m price tag to produce
Features a 30-hour hamburger recipe
The brainchild of Nathan Myhrvold, a multimillionaire tech visionary, Modernist Cusine is a six-volume behemoth that may be the world’s heaviest cookbook ever.
Taking 46 people nearly five years to produce in a massive Seattle warehouse, the incredible six-volume series celebrates the laboratory-inspired cooking made famous by El Bulli’s Ferran Adria and The Fat Duck’s Heston Blumenthal.
Read the full piece at Brisbane's Courier Mail.
4 comments:
Not only the heaviest, but the most expensive. For that money i got six month's tuition at the London Cordon Bleu school (admittedly in the 70's.)
18 kg????? I am so curious now, even i couldn't lift it!!
I wander how long it took to write the index :-).
ciao
A.
O goodness! Even if I win Lotto, this is not a cookbook I'd crave...I can think of several older cookbooks I could track down, that I'd value more-
o, and at 3kg per volume, you could easily manage it Allessandra!
Maybe I could Keri, but my kitchen bookshelf is already cracking!
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