In search of total perfection - Heston Blumenthal

Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original dishes asSnail Porridge and Nitrogen Scrambled Egg & Bacon Ice Cream at hisinternationally acclaimed restaurant, The Fat Duck. In this book,a single-volume edition of the bestselling Perfectionbooks, Heston focuses his creative talent on reinventing some of our mostwell-known (and most abused) dishes.

He travels around the world in search of definitive versions of sixteenclassic 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, BlackForest Gateau, Treacle Tart & Ice Cream, Trifle and Baked Alaska.

Among the many adventures on his quest, he travels to Delhi and makesan MRI scan of the marinated chicken in his Tikki Masala; he discoversthe secret to the ultimate crispy duck in Peking and experiments athome by inflating a Gressingham on a footpump; he walks the Dickensianstreets of Lambeth and learns how to capture the essence of a fish andchip shop in a perfume bottle, and he explores the Willy Wonka-esqueTate&Lyle factory and tastes some seventy-year-old syrup thatproves an inspiration for the flavour of his treacle tart.

Total Perfectionis an original, inspiring and fascinating voyage around the culinary globe.