Did You Hear About The $625 Cookbook?

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 11, 2010
$625 is the retail price of this book, a 2,200-page tome on how to cook as if you were a mad scientist, written by the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, who you may have guessed is as geeky as any man alive. He holds...
The full article can be read on the OC Weekly website.

Related Articles

Our restaurant critic’s favorite cookbook in 2022 so far

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 25, 2022
If you have been to Reem’s in San Francisco’s Mission District, a restaurant modeled on the traditions of Arab corner bakeries, you likely know the crackle and tang of the flatbreads, and how springtime strawberries find their way among the...

SalviSoul's Karla Vasquez celebrates Salvadoran cuisine

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • September 11, 2020
Six years ago Karla Vasquez was a budding home cook learning to make one of her favorite Salvadoran dishes — the minced beef dish called salpicón salvadoreño — when she made a sobering discovery: There are almost no Salvadoran cookbooks currently...

Bobby Flay To Sign Books At South Coast Plaza

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • September 14, 2011
As it seems with every Food Network chef that has a book out, Bobby Flay will stop by Orange County on his book tour–a tour that has him signing copies of a new cooking tome entitled Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook. And as with every past book...

Marilyn Hagerty, Granny Who Wrote Infamous Olive Garden Review, Is Coming Out With a Book!

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 20, 2013
Marilyn Hagerty, if you don't remember, is the 85-year-old Grand Forks Herald restaurant critic whose Olive Garden review went viral because of the snarky hipsters who pointed at it to show how unhip she was. Backlash against the snark quickly...

An ace L.A. team is the secret sauce behind the Red Boat cookbook

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 5, 2022
Cuong Pham, the founder of Red Boat Fish Sauce, has the kind of business story that should be adapted for a Netflix series. He arrived in the United States from Vietnam in 1979, and the cultural adjustments included never quite being able to...