Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, champion of the scientific kitchen, changes all that with this radical 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!
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408804407
Number of pages: 408
Weight: 2226 g
Dimensions: 272 x 220 mm
'What fun it is to follow in this gastro-wizard's footsteps' - Observer Food Monthly
This book is excelent for a chef or amateur cook. Goes beyond giving recipes, teach you important concepts about food and cooking methods.
Highly recommend!!!
Once upon a time there was a man named Heston who taught himself how to cook and went on to become one of the most well respected chefs the world had ever known. His restaurant in Bray was once reagrded as the best on... More
This book is great, teaches you about the concept of food, great receipes, Heston is an amazing chef and it's great to be able to try and recreate his receipes. Would highly recommend.
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