Heston Blumenthal
Autore di The Fat Duck Cookbook
Sull'Autore
Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original dishes as Snail Porridge and Nitro-Scrambled Egg and Bacon Ice Cream at his internationally acclaimed restaurant, the Fat Duck. In Total Perfection, Heston travels far and wide in search of 'perfect' versions of sixteen of the world's mostra altro best-loved (and worst-abused) dishes, seeking their cultural roots, exploring the finest ingredients and finding out what makes these standards of global cuisine so great. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesy of Allen & Unwin.
Opere di Heston Blumenthal
Dine at Home with Heston (part1) 2 copie
Revolutionary French Cooking 2 copie
Dine at Home with Heston part 2 1 copia
Opere correlate
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Cooks and Chefs (2005) — Collaboratore — 408 copie
Come ho imparato a cucinare. Storie di vita davanti ai fornelli dei più grandi cuochi del mondo (2006) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1966-05-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 1,195
- Popolarità
- #21,507
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 30
- Lingue
- 5
Rightio, that's got that out of the way...
Heston Blumenthal is well-known to viewers of Masterchef where he is venerated like a god and subject to fangirl/boy ecstasy whenever he makes a grand entrance. Whether this is because these apparently everyday contestants have actually eaten in his astronomically-priced restaurant, or because they aspire to his molecular gastronomy (or just the fame), I do not know. However, I find him entertaining, because unlike Marco Pierre-White and his pompous posturing, though Heston is A Serious Chef in his restaurants, he does not take himself too seriously on the show. I enjoyed the challenge when I attempted one of his recipes from Historic Heston (2014, see my review), but I do not take him seriously as a guide in the domestic kitchen. I'm an experienced cook and I like to be adventurous with recipes, but I'm not a chef and I don't aspire to be.
Is This a Cookbook? brings Heston back down to earth. A bit. Opening his book at random I find his 'Gut-Friendly Beetroot Soup' involves nearly a whole page of ingredients and two pages of instructions for the pickled beetroot, the stock, the beetroot barley, the pan-roasted root vegetables, the kefir horseradish and the garnish. Plus there's nearly a page (in the annoying Italics) about digestion and the microbiome, and next to each page of the actual recipe, there's another page of tips and explanations (in the annoying Italics.) So, including the full colour page photo of the soup, this one recipe takes six pages. 'Exhilarating Geen Gazpacho' soup takes four. So does the 'Kimcheese Toastie' and the 'Bacon Buttie' preceded by five pages about sandwiches (yes, Italics for all of it) and photos of Heston eating 'A Mindful Sandwich'. You do the maths, not counting the index there are 340 pages, give or take 23 pages of the yada-yada at the beginning of the book, so there's not a lot of recipes...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/11/19/is-this-a-cookbook-by-heston-blumenthal/… (altro)