The Fat Duck

Amy's Baking Company Hires Joe Arpaio's PR Firm To Change Public's Perception

by Tina Nguyen

How good is Rose, Moser & Allyn? They represent the highly controversial Maricopa County Sherrif Joe Arpaio, the law enforcement official so divisive that someone recently tried to blow him up with a package bomb.

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WATCH: The Sussman Brothers Ride Horses And Crash Tea Parties On Truckers In The Wild

by Tina Nguyen

God forbid that Max and Eli Sussman, the pride of Brooklyn, ever betray their hipster roots by doing such WASPy things as equestrian activities and gossiping with ladies over tea.

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WATCH: Why Is Anthony Bourdain At A Fake KFC In Libya?

by Tina Nguyen

"That kid who you see, a militia member, at one point looks in the camera and says, 'This is the taste of freedom.' Which is both dismaying and heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time."

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WATCH: Jay Rayner Takes Down Locavorism In Snarky New Book Trailer

by Mariella Mosthof

British food critic Jay Rayner just released a trailer for his new book A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, which contains a sneak peek of his mind-blowing anti-locavorism argument. Turns out sustainability based on geography is poppycock!

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Money

Young British Chef Offers The World’s Most Expensive Christmas Dinner

by Tina Nguyen 5:01 pm, December 10th

If you’ve never heard of Ben Spalding, let’s just say that he’s worth quite a bit of coinage. In fact, this young British chef is so valuable he’s auctioning off a Christmas dinner for four for £125,000. In American money, that’s $200,850. (For all the Chinese billionaire readers of The Braiser: it’s ￥1,251,250.)
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Social Media

Your Morning Tweet: Heston Blumenthal Revolutionizes Soup

by Tina Nguyen 9:15 am, December 10th

“After a long internal debate at the Fat Duck, I’m glad to announce we will now be serving soup as a liquid.” — Heston Blumental (@HestonBlumental) December 9, 2012
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Deaths

Fat Duck Chefs Tragically Killed In Hong Kong Car Crash

by Tina Nguyen 1:02 pm, November 21st

Sky News reports that two chefs from Heston Blumenthal’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant The Fat Duck were recently killed in an auto accident in Hong Kong.
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WTF

Heston Blumenthal Wants You To Pay $475 To Eat Tinsel Off A Christmas Tree

by Tina Nguyen 2:15 pm, November 13th

Okay, we cannot write this story straight. At all. We love you, Heston Blumenthal, and we hold a deep and abiding respect for your whimsy and childlike wonderment at the marvels of the world. And then you decide to create an edible Christmas Tree.
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Tricks Of The Trade

Cookbook Chronicles Staff Meals At The World’s Best Restaurants

by Tina Nguyen 1:35 pm, September 30th

Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy go into the world’s best restaurants and photograph the staff meals served every night there in their new book, Come In, We’re Closed: An Invitation To Staff Meals At The World’s Best Restaurants.
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Video

WATCH: CNN Explains Heston Blumenthal’s Cooking With Wonka-esque Visuals

by Tina Nguyen 1:39 pm, September 14th

Though if you think about it, how could Heston Blumenthal not be Willy Wonka?
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Travel

6 Glowing Chef Recommendations In Newsweek’s ‘Best Places To Eat’ List

by Mariella Mosthof 3:40 pm, August 8th

Landing a spot on Restaurant Magazine’s World’s 50 Best List is an accomplishment for any chef, sure, but Newsweek recently rounded up a bunch of celebrity chefs to help them compile their list of the World’s 101 Best Places to Eat (you know, for the phallic asparagus edition), which, apparently, don’t even have to be restaurants at all.
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Bragging Rights

Heston Blumenthal Carries Olympic Torch Past The Fat Duck

by Mariella Mosthof 10:10 am, July 11th

Heston Blumenthal may be Queen Elizabeth II’s chef of choice, but usually it’s Jamie Oliver that gets to do the fun celebrity stuff, like carry the Olympic Torch. But yesterday, Heston got to join the party!
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