Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page Game-Changing Cookbook

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11 pointspetercooper5 comments

I'm a fan of this book, but not of Nathan Myhrvold's business practices. Conflict!

More importantly, I have neither the funds nor the space for such a magnificent work. Myhrvold + Company: please disregard my above comments about Intellectual Ventures, and if you're reading this, please know that I would be honored to review your work...

2,400 pages of results into a 47-pound, six-volume collection that costs $625 and requires four pounds of ink to print.

Kindle version please.

After having read the production guide for this, it seems like the sort of book that paper (or perhaps a full blown desktop app) was designed for. The printing process is pretty special with photographic levels of DPI (as compared to typical book printing).

I'm seriously considering buying a copy ("copy" sounds like a ridiculous word for a book like this, no? ;-)) even though I'm not particularly interested in cooking..

Where's the production guide? In any case I did go and look at the book's webpage and your right. The images are stunning. The Kindle would not do this book justice.

I can't justify paying that price for the book, but it is really tempting.

http://modernistcuisine.com/docs/ModernistCuisine_About%20th...

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