Looking at the way in which certain cookbooks from high-end restaurants and chefs have moved away from usability in a home kitchen and more into the realm of the art book, to be admired but not actually used.

1. COOKBOOKS AS
ART AND STATUS OBJECTS
Kim Beeman, Jane Black, Sarah Cohn, Emily Contois,
and Anne McBride
The Cookbook Conference
February 8, 2013

2. THE BEGINNING

3.  Weight: 2.4 pounds
 Pages: 592 pages
 Publication Date: 1995
 Weight: 42 pounds
 Pages: 2438 (6
volumes)
 Publication Date: 2011
The Lutece Cookbook Modernist Cuisine

4. OLD

5. BIG

6. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Pierre Herme Pastries
Modernist Cuisine At Home
Mugaritz
Eleven Madison Park
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
Alinea
El Bulli: 1998-2002
French Laundry
Jean-Georges: Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef
Alfred Portale's Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook
The Lutece Cookbook
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Pounds
Weight

7. 0 50 100 150 200 250
Mugaritz
Modernist Cuisine At Home
Pierre Herme Pastries
Eleven Madison Park
Modernist Cuisine
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
Alinea
El Bulli: 1998-2002
French Laundry
Jean-Georges: Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef
Alfred Portale's Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook
The Lutece Cookbook
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Square Inches
Cover Area

8. 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Pierre Herme Pastries
Fäviken
Modernist Cuisine At Home
Mugaritz
Momofuku Milk Bar
Eleven Madison Park
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
Momofuku
Alinea
El Bulli: 1998-2002
French Laundry
Jean-Georges: Cooking At Home with a Four-Star Chef
Alfred Portale's Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook
The Lutece Cookbook
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Number of Pages
Pages

9. COMPLICATED

10. ALINEA

11. MODERNIST CUISINE AND MODERNIST
CUISINE AT HOME

12. MOMOFUKU

13. BEAUTIFUL

14. ALINEA

15. FAT DUCK

16. ELEVEN
MADISON PARK

17. MUGARITZ

18. NOMA

19. MODERNIST
CUISINE

20. FÄVIKEN