Heston Blumenthal: Heston Blumenthal at Home, Gebunden

Kurzbeschreibung

Heston has recently been signed up by Channel 4 to promote a series of
TV programmes as part of a 2 year deal, which will ensure his profile will continue to rise dramatically.
Waitrose has signed up Heston and Delia Smith for a nationide publicity campaign, with their own branded products and advertising across the media.
He is widely acknowledged to be a genius, and The Fat Duck has twice
been voted the Best Restaurant in the World by a peer group of top
chefs.
The book that redefines home cookery for the twenty-first century

Beschreibung

Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, champion of the scientific kitchen, is set to change all that with his radical new book. With meticulous precision, he explains what the most effective techniques are and why they work.
The first part of the book maps out the new techniques in 15 sections:
1) Taste and flavour 2) Seasoning and the five tastes 3) Stocks and
infusing 4) Soups and purees 5) Brining, curing, marinating, macerating
6) Meat 7) Fish 8) Vegetables 9) Pasta, grains, pulses 10) Sauces,
emulsions, thickening 11) Tarts and other doughs and pastries 12)
Chocolate 13) Ice cream, sorbets, custards 14) Sous-vide cookery 15)
Taking control of the kitchen
In the second part, there are 150 specially created recipes. Here at
last is the secret to irrefutably perfect fish and chips, as well as a
few more unconventional dishes like salmon with liquorice, or lardy cake with whisky ice cream.
Heston at Home will change the way you think about cooking forever - prepare for a culinary revolution!

Klappentext

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!