Heston's magic potion

I love food. Really adore it. A lot. 
It's much more than a stomach filler, its a skill, a craft, an art, filled with history, a social activity and not to mention - Extremely important for our survival!! its everything basically...


There is one chef's work which I absolutely adore... and that is Heston Blumenthal. If I may, I'd compare him to Alexander McQueen... Taking magical elements from the past and reinterpreting them into up-to-date, of the minute, palette punching and intellectually challenging dishes - with a touch of romance, brutality and whimsy. 


Like McQueen, Galliano, Lagerfeld... lets say, most other designers who reference the past... (Ghesquière i'd put on par with maybe...Adria?)  Heston Blumenthal is a ragpicker - in Walter Benjamin's sense, elucidating things in the present that echo the past, or reinterpreting the past to create something slightly novel, unheard of in the present. He plays with nostalgia and familiarity to create something awe inspiring and challenging at the same time.

Edible Victorian Garden with bread, anchovy and herb undersoil; olive, grape nut and pumpkin seed soil; tapioca and fried eel gravel path; baby vegetables, potato pebbles and... wait for it, fried insects injected with tomato concentrate "to give a realistic ooze when bitten into". Hahaha.. ok, maybe the insects are too much, but I'd try it just for the insanity of it. Besides, as my father says...it's just protein (after i accidentally swallowed a fly).