The Big Fat Duck Cookbook

Heston Blumenthal OBE
Heston Blumenthal in 2010
Born	(1966-05-27) 27 May 1966 (age 51) Kensington, London, England
Education	John Hampden Grammar School
Website	www.thefatduck.co.uk
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s) The Fat Duck The Hinds Head Dinner by Heston Blumenthal The Crown at Bray The Perfectionists' Cafe
Television show(s) Heston’s Great British Food Kitchen Chemistry In Search of Perfection Big Chef Takes on Little Chef Heston's Feasts How To Cook Like Heston Heston's Fantastical Food Heston's Mission Impossible Inside Heston's World

Heston Marc Blumenthal, OBE (/ˈbluːmənθɔːl/; born 27 May 1966) is a British celebrity chef. He is the proprietor of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, one of four restaurants in Great Britain to have three Michelin stars; it was voted No. 1 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2005.

Blumenthal owns the restaurant Dinner in London, which has two Michelin stars, and two pubs in Bray, The Crown at Bray and The Hinds Head, which has one Michelin star. He invented recipes for triple-cooked chips and soft-centred Scotch eggs.

He advocates scientific understanding in cooking, for which he has been awarded honorary degrees from Reading, Bristol and London universities and made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a pioneer of multisensory cooking, foodpairing and flavour encapsulation. He has described his ideas in books, newspaper columns and a TV series.

Heston Marc Blumenthal was born in Kensington, London on 27 May 1966 to a Jewish father born in Southern Rhodesia and an English mother who converted to Judaism. Blumenthal has stated that he considers himself Jewish. His surname comes from a great-grandfather from Latvia and means flowered valley.