Total Perfection

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, a single-volume edition of the bestselling Perfection books, 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 footpump; 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.

ISBN 1408802449   Pages 496 ISBN13 9781408802441 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 676 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Published in London Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 153 Publication date 06 Jul 2009   Spine width (mm) 37 DEWEY 641.5   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		7
		Conversion Tables		11
1		Roast Chicken & Roast Potatoes		16
2		Chicken Tikka Masala		44
3		Peking Duck		70
4		Steak		102
5		Spaghetti Bolognese		130
6		Chilli con Carne		156
7		Hamburger		194
8		Bangers & Mash		224
9		Fish & Chips		252
10		Fish Pie		272
11		Pizza		296
12		Risotto		332
13		Black Forest Gateau		364
14		Treacle Tart & Ice Cream		398
15		Baked Alaska		424
16		Trifle		444
		Food Safety		466
		Equipment		468
		Suppliers, Restaurants & Other Useful Addresses Bibliography		480
		Acknowledgements		484
		Index		488

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