Heston Blumenthal:

Heston Marc Blumenthal (27 May 1966)

is a British celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. Blumenthal is
multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and that is considered a pioneer of
flavor encapsulation. He came to the public with unusual recipes,
for example, with bacon-egg ice cream and snails. For triple-boiled chips
and soft-centered scotch his egg recipes were widely imitated. He advocated
a scientific approach to cooking, for which, he received honorary degrees
from the Universities of Reading, Bristol and London, and the Royal
Society of
He became an honorary member of Chemistry. Blumenthal's public profile
has been raised by a number of television series, primarily for Channel 4,
as well as the product range of the Waitrose supermarket chain presented
in 2010. Owner of Fat Duck in Bray, in Berkshire, a three-Michelin-starred
restaurant widely regarded as one of the best in the world.
Blumenthal is also the owner of Dinner, a restaurant with two Michelin
stars
in London, as well as a pub in Bray, Hind's Head, with a Michelin star.

He did a lot of experimentation with food pairing, in which recipes are

created by identifying molecular similarities of different ingredients and
combine them in a pot. One of the first recipe was a Blumenthal's white
chocolate with caviar. He created unusual combinations, including fried
foie gras
benzaldehyde and salmon poached in licorice accompanied by asparagus.
Although those were uncommon, many of the combinations were critically
well received, Blumenthal insisted that while food pairing is a good tool for
creativity, it cannot replace the chef's culinary intuition. The molecular
profile of a single ingredient is so complex that even if it has several
compounds in common, there may still be as many reasons why they don't
work together as why they do. Blumenthal is also known for using scented
dry ice. Blumenthal and his restaurant, The Fat Duck, is considered the
creator of the bacon dessert craze. Already in 2004, sweet and salty bacon
and egg ice cream made the news about the interestingly strange candy.

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