amazon.co.uk), clock in at £70 - rather more than Wagamama, but still considerably cheaper than dinner overlooking the Med at Menton.
Heston Blumenthal’s Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Bloomsbury), from the only UK restaurant ever to hit the World’s Best Restaurant spot, weighs in at 532 pages for £150, should you ever find yourself in the mood for a restorative bowl of snail porridge for breakfast.
The bible of molecular gastronomy, however, is Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (Phaidon, £395). Author Nathan Myhrvold worked with Stephen Hawking on the quantum theory of gravitation before becoming the first chief technology officer for Microsoft.
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