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I have a thing for cookbooks in general—big, glossy pictures of tortes and asparagus? Sold. But The Big Fat Duck Cookbook is really beyond. Like, keeping it in a kitchen would seem wrong. There are crazy, intricate illustrations, dishes art-directed to a whole bananas new level, and recipes that fill multiple pages of a book that's as tall as my arm.

Photo from guardian.co.uk The ginormous thing is from Heston Blumenthal, the mad scientist-type chef at the book's namesake restaurant in England. (He makes things like smoked bacon-and-egg ice cream.) And, duh, because the book probably took the budget of an indie film to produce, it's price tag is a leeeeetle removed from that of The Joy of Cooking. We're talking $158 on Amazon when it comes out in Nov.