Heston's fantastical feasts - Heston Blumenthal

With gold edged pages, gold ribbon and gold illustrated cloth slipcase,each signed and numbered special edition is sumptuous andultra-desirable.

Once upon a time there was a Chef called Heston who opened a smallrestaurant called the Fat Duck. At first, he served only simpleFrench classics but gradually, as is the way of things, the Chef'scuriosity got the better of him and he began thinking up more unusualdishes, such as Snail Porridge and Chocolate Wine.

Word spread and reached the ears of the Executives who ran a televisionchannel, and they summoned the Chef to their glass fortress. "Wecommand you to create six Fantastical Feasts," they said. "Thesemust be based on history, but you may draw on fairytales andlegends. We should warn you that the Quest will involve journeysto Transylvania in search of the legendary Leech Recipe of Sibiu, andto the Black Forest to eat the eyes of the Wild Boar ofMnstertal. You must resist the temptations of the BurlesqueGirls, and you must turn chocolate cake into a raging fireball andchicken's testicles into jelly beans. There will be hunting forhallucinogenic mushrooms and cooking with Play-Doh. Out of this,you must create the most magical dishes imaginable."

"Well, how about lickable wallpaper, a savoury Zoom lolly, achocolate-covered iceberg, a golden egg and an edible graveyard?"offered the Chef.

"It's a start," said the Executives. "Oh, and once you haveachieved the Quest, you must bring us proof, in the form of aBook. But not just any Book. We want tales of extravagantingredients, of revolutionary techniques, of familiar kitchenappliances put to unfamiliar uses. We want to see what yousee. Taste what you taste. In short, we want complete andunparalleled access to your fantastical world."