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Heston Blumenthal at Home

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2011 - Cooking - 407 pages
Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, champion of the scientific kitchen, is set to change all that with his radical new book. With meticulous precision, he explains what the most effective techniques are and why they work. Heston's instructions are precise and easy to follow, with lots of helpful tips, and each chapter is introduced with an explanation of Heston's approach to 1) Stocks 2) Soups 3) Starters 4) Salads 5) Meat 6) Fish 7) Sous-vide 8) Pasta and grains 9) Cheese 10) Sides and condiments 11) Ices 12) Desserts and sweets 13) Biscuits, snacks and drinks. Recipes include Green bean and radish salad; Prawn cocktail; Roast chicken; Shepherd's pie; Sea bass with vanilla butter; Liquorice poached salmon; Carbonara; The ultimate cheese toastie; Strawberry sundae; Liquid centre chocolate pudding and Raspberry sherbert. And, of course, Heston's famous Triple-cooked chips. Heston Blumenthal at Home will change the way you think about cooking forever - prepare for a culinary revolution!

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User Review  - Meredith - Goodreads

This book is well put together, well presented, and no doubt the recipes would be really impressive. If you made them. Personally I am put off by instructions for a recipe that fill or exceed one ... Read full review

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User Review  - ^ - Goodreads

It's difficult to know where to begin in assessing this book. I should firstly and firmly state that although I bought this book new, I did not, and would not have, paid the cover price of £30. I paid ... Read full review

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About the author (2011)

Entirely self-taught, Heston Blumenthal is the most progressive chef ofhis generation. In 2004 he won the coveted three Michelin stars innear-record time for his restaurant The Fat Duck, which has twice beenvoted the Best Restaurant in the World by an international panel of 500experts. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE.

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