France's 1,080-page "Grand Livre of Cuisine: Alain Ducasse's Culinary Encyclopedia," at just under 14 pounds is believed to be the world's heaviest book.
The cookbook, by French chef Alain Ducasse, contains 700 recipes and some 10,000 photographs and will cost more than $245 when it goes on sale in British bookstores in April, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Ducasse, one of France's best-known and most respected chefs who has collected 9 Michelin stars, said the cookbook is the culmination of his 25 years of experience of haute cuisine.
Despite its heft and recipes -such as wild brill on the spit with ramps, littleneck clams and new potatoes; duck foie gras papillottes with lady apples; and potted rabbit forequarters spread on toasted country bread with red-clawed crayfish -- it one of France's most successful cookbooks, selling more than 35,000 copies.
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