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Is this an advertisement for a 5-cookbook set at $625? If I were a beginner, I would spend that money on a carbon steel pan, one Staub pot, a good kitchen and p

Is this an advertisement for a 5-cookbook set at $625? If I were a beginner, I would spend that money on a carbon steel pan, one Staub pot, a good kitchen and paring knife, one peeler, and I’d have some left for high-quality ingredients to experiment with myself. If I were more advanced, I would look into professional culinary institutes’ books. Everything in between is easily accessible on YouTube. An expensive book as beautiful as it is will never make a good cook; only good tools, ingredients, and practice will do.

jofer 2y ago
I'd hesitate to call this a "cookbook". It's closer to a coffee-table photography book. It's somewhat more art than instruction, though it is both. It's inspiring, for sure, but is very different than most. I also thought it had been out of print for years, but it seems I'm wrong... Perhaps this is news because it's no longer out of print? Or was I just misremembering?
- Eric_WVGG 2y ago
  I was given a "copy" about ten years ago. It came in a lucite box. I brought it home on the subway, and when I took off my pants later that night I found a horizontal line of bruises across my thighs. As of a couple years ago there’s a gallery around Seattle’s Pike Place market that displays various photographs from the series.
  - shalmanese 2y ago
    Per pound, the book is actually a lot more affordable than most cookbooks.
danielmarkbruce 2y ago
maybe check out the content first...
skyyler 2y ago
> If I were a beginner This book is not for beginners. It's not even for home cooks. Also, hilariously, there's a list of equipment provided in the version for home cooks. It's quite different from what you're suggesting to a beginner, because even the version of this book that is for home cooks is not for beginners.
- sleepybrett 2y ago
  I'd say it's not really for anyone
  - skyyler 2y ago
    It's for Nathan Myhrvold
42772827 2y ago
The book set has been circulating in very good PDF form for about 10 years.

jofer 2y ago

I'd hesitate to call this a "cookbook". It's closer to a coffee-table photography book. It's somewhat more art than instruction, though it is both. It's inspiring, for sure, but is very different than most. I also thought it had been out of print for years, but it seems I'm wrong... Perhaps this is news because it's no longer out of print? Or was I just misremembering?

Eric_WVGG 2y ago
I was given a "copy" about ten years ago. It came in a lucite box. I brought it home on the subway, and when I took off my pants later that night I found a horizontal line of bruises across my thighs. As of a couple years ago there’s a gallery around Seattle’s Pike Place market that displays various photographs from the series.
- shalmanese 2y ago
  Per pound, the book is actually a lot more affordable than most cookbooks.

danielmarkbruce 2y ago

maybe check out the content first...

skyyler 2y ago

> If I were a beginner This book is not for beginners. It's not even for home cooks. Also, hilariously, there's a list of equipment provided in the version for home cooks. It's quite different from what you're suggesting to a beginner, because even the version of this book that is for home cooks is not for beginners.

sleepybrett 2y ago
I'd say it's not really for anyone
- skyyler 2y ago
  It's for Nathan Myhrvold

42772827 2y ago

The book set has been circulating in very good PDF form for about 10 years.