Heston’s Feasts

Brilliant, Heston’s back and he’s no longer stuck in a caff counting out baked beans. Having spent weeks tempting Hampshire truckers off egg and chips in Big Chef Takes On Little Chef Heston’s setting his sights on more formidable feasting.

Heston’s Feasts sees the gourmet gad travelling through time examining culinary magic throughout the ages. From luminous jelly to blackbirds in pies he’ll be picking up tips from the Tudors and recipes from the Romans culminating each week with what he does best – a damn good spread.

First up he’s off to Victorian Britain – a time of British prosperity when Charles Darwin established the origins of the species and Jack the Ripper did his best to end it. Neither gent gets a seat at Heston’s table but we will see a handful of telly’s finest forced to scoff insects and tackle a giant absinthe-flavoured jelly cone.

Great stuff. But it’s not just celebrity cruelty that makes Heston’s Feasts great; it’s a celebration of all that is glorious about good grub. Not just the taste but the smells, the sounds and the all-round spectacle of feasting at its finest. This is not just blue-sky thinking; this is Heston in seventh heaven.

Heston’s Feasts begins Tuesday March 3rd at 9pm on Channel 4

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