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Heston Marc Blumenthal , born 27 May 1966, is a British celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and flavour encapsulation.

Meat Fruit

A chicken liver and foie gras parfait encased inside a 'peel' of mandarin orange jelly. The recipe appears in Blumentha's Historic Heston cookbook, published in 2013.

He has experimented with foodpairing, in which recipes are created by identifying molecular similarities between different ingredients and bringing these together in a dish. One of the first such was Blumenthal's white chocolate with caviar. 

Sound of the Sea

A  seafood dish presented on a glass-topped wooden box containing sand and seashells and consists of what looks like sand but is in fact a mixture of tapioca, fried breadcrumbs, crushed fried baby eels, cod liver oil and langoustine oil topped with abalone, razor clams, shrimps and oysters and three kinds of edible seaweed served with a conch shell containing an iPod. The guests listen to a sound of waves crashing and seagulls flying overhead as they enjoy the dish.

Blumenthal is well known for creating a number of savoury ice cream pairings, egg and bacon ice cream is probably the most famous of these. Watch how egg and bacon ice cream is made in the video below:

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A British restaurant that serves bacon and egg ice cream has been voted the best place in the world to eat. The Fat Duck restaurant, near London, was at the top of Restaurant magazine’s list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. The owner and head chef Heston Blumenthal opened his restaurant ten years ago. He has quickly developed a reputation for experimental and unique dishes. His menu includes leather, oak and tobacco chocolates, sardine on toast sorbet, snail porridge, and mousse dipped in liquid nitrogen. He taught himself how to cook and is now famous for this new style of cooking, which is called “molecular gastronomy”. It mixes chemistry, physics, food and flavour to make unusual taste combinations. Britain, the home of fish and chips, is famous for tasteless and boring food. However, it seems things are changing: in addition to the Fat Duck’s award, London was named in March by Gourmet magazine as the Gourmet Capital of the World.

a. A British restaurant serves bacon and egg ice cream.

b. A British restaurant won the title of best restaurant in the world.

c. The head chef cooks traditional English dishes.

d. The head chef studied at a French cooking school.

e. Britain is the home of fish and chips.

f. London was named as the gourmet capital of the world.