"A $450 Cookbook" is a little misleading. It's actually a five volume book set (plus a spiral-bound kitchen manual) that contains 2,438 pages and weighs almost 39 pounds.
It's called Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by Nathan Myhrvold, written by a former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer. We were talking with some friends about this recently, and I wanted to find out more. The "book" is an encylopedia and guide to the science of contemporary cooking.
According to Wikipedia: At the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010 the book was named "the most important cookbook of the first ten years of the 21st century" and was introduced in the hall of fame. The book has been described as the “The cookbook to end all cookbooks.”
Check it out here on Amazon and Barnes & Noble's sites.
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