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.
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.)
ReplyDelete18 kg????? I am so curious now, even i couldn't lift it!!
ReplyDeleteI wander how long it took to write the index :-).
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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-
ReplyDeleteo, 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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