Articles tagged with: Heston Blumenthal
A guest blog by Monsieur Josh Burt from Interestment... Were medieval royals granted a few weeks living in the 21st century, they would be astounded by what they see. Outraged even. Look, the jesters have become film stars! Hark, the lowly kitchen workers are all over television making big money! Next thing you know, the bottom wipers will be running the country. Oh, hang on… Either way, the medievals can shut the hell up, because we absolutely adore the celebrity cooks. So much so that we thought it completely necessary to come up with a top five. It reads exactly like this…
This three-part miniseries charts chemistry set chef Heston Blumenthal’s appointment to revive moribund restaurant chain Little Chef with his unique inimitable brand of weird food.
Essentially it is a cross between Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and one of Jamie Oliver’s ‘only I can save Britain’ missions.
Hey you! Ever dreamt of a day when a tedious road journey could be broken up with a delicious steaming plate of Ballotine of Anjou Pigeon?
Of course you have, we all have. And soon maybe we will. Channel 4 has poached crazy food scientist Heston Blumenthal away from BBC2 and given him his own show. Heston's first task? Turning around the fortunes of Little Chef.
It goes without saying that Heston Blumenthal has his work cut out, though - how is the revolutionary, three Michelin starred proprietor of one of the world's best restaurants going to be able to improve on an Olympic Breakfast, for christ's sake? It's an impossible task!
