Cannes launches Worlds most expensive book

In the history of the 68 years of Cannes Film Festival, this is the first time that a cookbook is being launched here.

It has taken more than 12 years for Michelin Star Chef Vikas Khanna to research, write, photograph this book which is setting the price of the most expensive cookbook in the World (Rs. 8 lacs or US$ 13,000).

“The journey of anything auspicious begins with transgender community singing and clapping at the doors of our homes, their blessings are like Mother’s love. It may be a wedding, child births, first Diwali, Holi or Lohri, it’s their voices that bring the celebration in the occasion. So, I dedicate this book to them to them and applaud for their love and compassion in our Nation,” – said Khanna.

The limited edition of the book will have a poem embossed in gold ink.

Khanna will hand deliver this cookbook to the world’s top 12 leaders who have inspired him as a gratitude and to his “Motherland to the World”. This journey will start from India’s PM Narendra Modi.

The book celebrates India’s known and lesser-known festivals. Their rituals, ceremonies and customs of food through sacred ingredients. This is Chef Khanna’s 21st book and is dedicated to the Transgender community of India.