Heston Blumenthal

Heston Blumenthal, 2010
Taste of London Festival

Heston Blumenthal , OBE (born May 27, 1966 in London ) is a British restaurateur. He is the chef and owner of The Fat Duck restaurant in Bray , Berkshire , which has been awarded three Michelin stars.

Life

At the age of 16, Blumenthal discovered fine dining while on vacation in France. He learned his cooking skills himself, bought the 450-year-old pub “The Bell” in the center of Bray in 1995 and renamed it “ The Fat Duck ”. Blumenthal cooks classic French bistro dishes there. In close collaboration with the physics professor Peter Barham from the University of Bristol , he tried to understand the scientific principles of cooking and to apply the foundations in his dishes. He was one of the first chefs to use the principles of molecular cuisine.

In early 2001, Blumenthal took on a six-part television series called Kitchen Chemistry . In the same year his first cookbook, Family Food, was published . 2006 published In Search of Perfection , the companion book to the eponymous BBC - television series in which Blumenthal kitchen classics reinvented. Blumenthal also wrote columns for the Weekend Guardian and the Sunday Times Style Magazine . In 2004 he bought the Hinds Head pub in Bray, where he serves traditional English dishes.

From 2007 to 2008 he changed the menu of the British fast food chain Little Chef and was accompanied by a camera team from Channel 4 . Later, however, all dishes introduced by Blumenthal were removed from the menu again. A spokesman for the chain explained: The problem was that nobody was interested in his dishes, none of them became popular.

Publications

• Heston Blumenthal at home. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2011, 408 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1408804407 .
• Big Fat Duck Cookbook. Bloomsbury Publishing , London 2009, 532 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-0747597377 . (The ISBN 978-0747583691 edition with slipcase , gold rim, ribbon bookmark received the British Book Award : Stora Enso Design and Production Award 2009.)
• Total Perfection. In Search of Total Perfection. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2009, 496 pages, ISBN 978-1408802441 .
• Further Adventures in Search of Perfection. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0747594055 .
• In Search of Perfection. Reinventing Kitchen Classics. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 978-0747584094 . (Based on the BBC 2 series of the same name )

TV Shows

• Heston's fast food nightmare (OT: Big Chef Takes On Little Chef ). Documentation, Great Britain (2 × 3 parts), 2009, Germany (4 parts of 45 min.), 2010, Production: Channel 4 , German first broadcast: October 29, 2010 on RTL Living . Contents: Documentation on Blumenthal's efforts to improve the menu of the British fast food chain Little Chef .
• Heston's Feasts (OT: Heston's feast ). Multi-part series of cooking programs , Great Britain, 2009, production: Channel 4, German first broadcast: August 27, 2010 on RTL Living . Content: Blumenthal creates feasts from different eras, he combines traditional dishes with new ideas.
• Cooking like Heston Blumenthal (OT: How To Cook Like Heston ). German first broadcast: November 22, 2012 on RTL Living , later also on RTL Nitro . Content: Six-part cooking program that deals with the preparation of one basic ingredient each (eggs, chicken, beef, chocolate, cheese, potatoes).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heston Blumenthal's food wiped from Little Chef menu in Basingstoke Gazette, June 29, 2013.