Old Food

[lsanderson]

The Way We Eat: Olde School
By CHRISTINE MUHLKE

When the chef Heston Blumenthal acquired the Hinds Head Hotel in Bray, England, in 2004, he really just wanted the attached offices and parking for his three-Michelin-star restaurant, the Fat Duck, next door. What he got instead was an 18th-century pub. Rather than serve his trademark better-eating-through-chemistry fare (sardine-on-toast sorbet, etc.), Blumenthal realized that he was going to have to stick to traditional English dishes like steak and kidney pudding, Lancashire hot pot and the like to avoid being run out of town by angry old men. More

With recipes for:
Hinds Head Chocolate Wine
Spinach-and-Date Fritters
Quaking Pudding
Chocolate Wine

Comments

Fat Duck

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I just love the Fat Duck.

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Re: Fat Duck

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

If ya cook 'em right, they shouldn't be that fat...