Author: |Posted: 11:54 am on 26/03/09
Category: Playing with Your Food
When he wasn’t torturing Christians and poisoning his family, Nero liked to indulge in raucous feasts with erotic overtones. Inspired by Heston’s Feasts, 4Food spent a day in life of the greedy tyrant to see how he would get on, eating in the 21st century. read more
Author: |Posted: 5:58 pm on 17/03/09
Category: Food on TV
In his Tudor Feast we see Heston creating otherworldly beasts and employing pyrotechnics in an attempt to entertain and amaze another group of celebrity guests. Get the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes on Heston’s Tudor Feast read more
Author: |Posted: 5:43 pm on 17/03/09
Category: Food on TV, Playing with Your Food

Butterbeer, as Heston Blumenthal points out in his Tudor Feast, is not just Harry Potter’s favourite tipple, it’s also a bona fide Tudor recipe made from ale, sugar, egg yolks, nutmeg and butter. If you’ve always thought that beer is good but could benefit from a few more calories, then this is the drink for you. read more
Author: |Posted: 1:35 pm on 12/03/09
Category: Food on TV
In Heston’s Feasts we see the chef extraordinaire employing gastronomic trickery to entertain and thrill celebrity guests. Here he gives us the goss on what really went on behind the camera of the Medieval episode read more
Author: |Posted: 5:53 pm on 10/03/09
Category: Food on TV, Playing with Your Food
Not content to fiddle with the food, Heston got creative with the cutlery and transformed his tableware into a medieval feast. At the risk of biting off more than we could chew, 4Food went a-smelting to see if we could rustle up a chocolate spoon.
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Author: |Posted: 6:12 pm on 03/03/09
Category: Food on TV, Playing with Your Food
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King of bonkers cooking, Heston Blumenthal, conjured up a luminous absinthe jelly as part of his Victorian feast and it looked bloody good fun. We might not have Heston’s wizardry but 4Food knows how to throw a wobbly, so we tried our hand at making our own.
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Author: |Posted: 1:05 pm on 19/02/09
Category: Food on TV
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. read more
Author: |Posted: 12:31 pm on 09/01/09
Category: Food on TV
Charlie Cottrell hits the the Rolls Royce of roadside caff to relive some childhood Little Chef memories and make some new celebrity pals. Sort of. read more