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`For cookbook obsessives it's bedtime reading to stimulate phantasmagorical foodie dreams.' --U Magazine
`Mind-blowing...With incredible ingredients, revolutionary techniques...Heston lets us into a complete and unparalleled fantastical foodie world'
--Flavour
`Mind-blowing...With incredible ingredients, revolutionary techniques...Heston lets us into a complete and unparalleled fantastical foodie world'
--Flavour
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PRAISE FOR THE BIG FAT DUCK COOKBOOK: It's not just a cookbook. It's not just an art book. It's not just a record of the most innovative and exhilarating self-taught chef to have ever come from the UK. The Big Fat Duck Cookbook transcends all others because Heston Blumenthal transcends all others ... The cookbook will never be the same again' Independent on Sunday 'Akin to edible performance art' Observer Food Books of the Year 'If sex began after the Chatterley ban, the British didn't do proper tuck before The Fat Duck ... The Fat Duck has been declared the world's finest and has changed how we think about food ... chefs should leave the mad science to Heston' Daily Telegraph
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What can I say about Heston Blumenthal that hasn't been said already? A genius? A wizard? A national treasure? He's all of these, of course...and a chef who actually appears to be enjoying himself, which is increasingly rare these days.
This book ties in with the latest Channel 4 series of Feast programmes. I say 'the latest' because there is nothing here from the first series - you'll have to get the DVD instead (which covers the first series only). Not that this matters. While I sort of wanted to do that Victorian Alice in Wonderland 'Drink Me' potion that keeps changing flavour (see the DVD), I knew it would be enormously complicated and I'd never get round to it. One or two of these recipes are...well, not UNCOMPLICATED exactly (this ain't Delia) but just about possible to do!
And what imagination: from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the Titanic and the Brothers Grimm to Dracula, Heston's ideas run riot. Then there are the eras in which we grew up with feasts based around the seventies and eighties. Yum yum!
It's all lavishly illustrated, the recipes are there in full and the accounts of his adventures in coming up with the final menus make compulsive reading.
One other thing: unlike The Big Fat Duck Cookbook, this one is very easy to lift.
Thank you, Mr Blumenthal, the Willy Wonka de nos jours!
This book ties in with the latest Channel 4 series of Feast programmes. I say 'the latest' because there is nothing here from the first series - you'll have to get the DVD instead (which covers the first series only). Not that this matters. While I sort of wanted to do that Victorian Alice in Wonderland 'Drink Me' potion that keeps changing flavour (see the DVD), I knew it would be enormously complicated and I'd never get round to it. One or two of these recipes are...well, not UNCOMPLICATED exactly (this ain't Delia) but just about possible to do!
And what imagination: from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the Titanic and the Brothers Grimm to Dracula, Heston's ideas run riot. Then there are the eras in which we grew up with feasts based around the seventies and eighties. Yum yum!
It's all lavishly illustrated, the recipes are there in full and the accounts of his adventures in coming up with the final menus make compulsive reading.
One other thing: unlike The Big Fat Duck Cookbook, this one is very easy to lift.
Thank you, Mr Blumenthal, the Willy Wonka de nos jours!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I never intended to cook from this, but there are some recipes that are probably manageable without buying extra equipment. I bought it for entertainment value and it's lived up to that.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bought three of these books for male friends as presents. I have just been to his restaurant the Fat Duck and have been telling anybody who will listen just how good it is. Giving the book was a fitting gift. The books have been warmly received by all and it's a really good read, even if you never cook any of the recipes!
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I love this man................
the DNA of italian tomato juice runs through his body, he is the nerd of food, the mad scientist of nuts, the obsess-or of dry ice.
Published 4 months ago by Maja
Fantastic
I love Heston's creations the book is a bit hard to read but you get all the menues from his show. I am tempted to try one of his menue in order to see how they work will keep you... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Yizhaq Berkalitzky
Heston's fantastical feasts
Not that useful as a recipe book! but nice photography.
Would not recommend it to others however.
Would not recommend it to others however.
Published 17 months ago by carole winstone
Heston, Heston, Heston....
Bought as a gift and I just KNOW that the person will LOVE this book!! Amazing chef from what I have seen of him!
Published 17 months ago by AddyPadPad
DO NOT ASK FOR GIFT WRAPPING!!!
This was intended as a gift and thus I selected the Gift Wrap option. However when the item turned up the paper was torn, half of it revealed the book and it looks like it has been... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Alex
Heston's Feast
Beautiful book. Full of the Heston's mysteria, will draw you in same way the fairy tale did.
Exclusively presented, would make an ideal gift. Read more
Exclusively presented, would make an ideal gift. Read more
Published 23 months ago by A. Shultz
Whats for lunch today then?
Love the TV series, the book is the cherry on top! Its going to be a hoot using some of the recipes - cant wait to see the butchers face when I ask for Chicken Testicles :)
Published on 10 May 2010 by Mrs. S. M. Anderson-wray
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