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Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original dishes as Snail Porridge and Nitrogen Scrambled Egg & Bacon Ice Cream at his internationally acclaimed restaurant, The Fat Duck. In this book, Heston focuses his creative talent on reinventing some of our most well-known (and most abused) dishes.
He travels around the world in search of definitive versions of sixteen classic dishes: Roast Chicken & Roast Potatoes, Pizza, Hamburger, Bangers & Mash, Fish Pie, Steak, Spaghetti Bolognese, Risotto, Fish & Chips, Chilli Con Carne, Chicken Tikka Masala, Peking duck, Black Forest Gateau, Treacle Tart & Ice Cream, Trifle and Baked Alaska.
Among the many adventures on his quest, he travels to Delhi and makes an MRI scan of the marinated chicken in his Tikki Masala; he discovers the secret to the ultimate crispy duck in Peking and experiments at home by inflating a Gressingham on a foot-pump; he walks the Dickensian streets of Lambeth and learns how to capture the essence of a fish and chip shop in a perfume bottle; and he explores the Willy Wonka–esque Tate&Lyle factory and tastes some seventy-year-old syrup that proves an inspiration for the flavour of his treacle tart.
Total Perfection is an original, inspiring and fascinating voyage around the culinary globe.
About the Author
Chef Heston Blumenthal has
been described as a culinary alchemist for his innovative style of cuisine. His
work researches the molecular compounds of dishes to enable a greater
understanding of taste and flavor. His restaurant, the Fat Duck, in Bray,
Berkshire, England, was awarded three Michelin stars in 2004, and voted the Best
Restaurant in the World by an international panel of 500 culinary experts in
Restaurant magazine's list of the World's Best Restaurants 2005.
Blumenthal lives in Berkshire with his wife and three children.
been described as a culinary alchemist for his innovative style of cuisine. His
work researches the molecular compounds of dishes to enable a greater
understanding of taste and flavor. His restaurant, the Fat Duck, in Bray,
Berkshire, England, was awarded three Michelin stars in 2004, and voted the Best
Restaurant in the World by an international panel of 500 culinary experts in
Restaurant magazine's list of the World's Best Restaurants 2005.
Blumenthal lives in Berkshire with his wife and three children.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Genius with a idiot ghost-writer,
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This review is from: Total Perfection (Paperback)
Watch the youtube clips of the TV series on which this book is based and you will see an ingenious, skillful and passionate artist at work. The cooking behind this book is astonishing, and brilliant. That brilliance is enough to make this book worth reading. But the book is _horribly_ written from beginning to end. It's like they commissioned Enid Blyton to ghost write a book by Charles Darwin.Buy it if what you want is a reminder of the uniquely Blumenthal cleverness that lies behind the recipes collected here -- but if bad prose hurts you, then, in reading this lot, you must expect to suffer grievously.
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Scientific approach to understanding a dish, great unless you already own Heston's other books in the series...,
By A. Hsu - Published on Amazon.com
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Heston's is a chef that tirelessly, to a point of obsession, strives to bring out the essence of food to a predetermined idea of "perfection". Being a self-taught, literally (not going to culinary school/working in a professional kitchen for only a week!), Heston takes an unconventional approach not used by everyday chefs and uses the scientific method to hypothesize and determine experiments for the results he is looking for. What I really enjoyed about this book is that he dwells into the history and background of the dish; from the story of the farmers, to the use of ingredients and conventional techniques.I guess some people may think that this book is not for the home cook. To a certain degree I can agree, due to the labor required in some of the recipes, but it is obvious that Heston had the home cook in mind while writing this book(just see his other books, Fat Duck Cookbook). Also this series was filmed for BBC as a television show. The recipes I have tried are sound and everything is written very clearly. But beyond the recipes, Heston is trying to give the home cook an idea of how to approach cooking, instilling somewhat of an intuition by having an understanding of what is going on in the food that you prepare. I find that having an understanding of why, is much more useful than a foundation of this is how. Other books of interest would be On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen as well as Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking Now all that being said, if you already own Heston Blumenthal's other books in the series In Search of Perfection and Further Adventures in Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics DO NOT GET THIS BOOK! It is simply a softcover copy of the two books put together!!! This is still a great book, but I much prefer the later two since they come hard bound, with more pictures and higher quality printing.
4.0 out of 5 stars
he is genius, great content, paperback quality sucks,
By Filippo - Published on Amazon.com
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amazing stories, wonderful recepies, eventho you will be able to cook probably only 4 or 5 of them. they are hard and require lots of preparation, attention etc... but he is a genius. the quality of the paperback leaves something to be desired.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Heston is err, umm beston..,
By J. Cameron - Published on Amazon.com
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it's great even if you just want to read about how great food can be prepared or a small insight into Heston's mad genius.On top of which, the recipe's have been made (somewhat) for home cooks. Very good. |
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