The Fat Duck Cookbook : Bloomsbury : 9780747597377 : 0747597375 : 05 Oct 2009 : In this beautiful, smaller format edition of the award-winning Big Fat Duck Cookbook,we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal andThe Fat Duck, birthplace of snail porridge and bacon-and-egg ice cream,and encounter the passion, perfection and weird science behind the manand the restaurant. Heston Blumenthal is widely acknowledgedto be a genius, and The Fat Duck has twice been voted the BestRestaurant in the World by a peer group of top chefs. But he isentirely self-taught, and the story of his restaurant has broken everyrule in the book. His success has been borne out of his pure obsession,endless invention and a childish curiosity into how things work- whether it's how smell affects taste, what different flavours mean tous on a biological level, or how temperature is distributed in thecentre of a soufflé. In the first section of The Fat Duck Cookbook,we learn the history of the resta