Oh Heston - you culinary genius. This is the third time I have watched Heston Blumenthal's Christmas Feast in the past, and it has still hasn't ceased to amaze and astound me. Throughout the episode he mentions how he finds the traditional Christmas Feast a bit bland and repetitive. I guess he is right, but isn't that what most people want from a Christmas Meal? - food that you look forward to having just once a year, like a treat for being a good girl/boy. Anyway, let's not question the genius. This episode is one of a series of Feasts a la Heston (i.e. weird but awesome) which involves him looking to history to see the various types of lavish feasts our ancestors had way back when.
If you can't be bothered to watch the entire episode (which is a shame), here is a clip of Heston making Doormice into lollipops. He actually had me wanting one, so don't squirm until you've seen it.
If you can't be bothered to watch the entire episode (which is a shame), here is a clip of Heston making Doormice into lollipops. He actually had me wanting one, so don't squirm until you've seen it.
I thought the most magical part of the meal was dessert though. Heston made an entire Christmas snow scene for his celebrity dining guests to feast upon. It looks like everything was made of plastic and artificial materials, but no, everything on the serving plate was edible. "Decadent and mad," is how one of the guests described. Indeed.
Don't be mistaking him for a chef though: even he doesn't claim himself to be one. And don't be mistaking what he is making as food: he is not making food - he is making scientific experiments which taste good.
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