i have about 700 books, but i don't have a single cookbook...i think i found one that would be good for my collection if i could afford it...amazon has it for only $446...if you include the "home" version, the total would be about $550 for 6 books...
http://modernistcuisine.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_Cuisine
the cookbook was created by nathan myrhvold, a physicist and mathematician, who worked with stephen hawking and was cto of microsoft...he takes a scientific approach to cooking and explains the physics and chemistry behind it, coming up with new ways of cooking food
