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Superchef to Publish Superbook

Posted Apr 19th 2008 4:02PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Dining

Heston Blumenthal from world-renowned The Fat Duck in Bray, England is known for his expensive and innovative cuisine and now one of the world's best chef is creating one of the world's priciest cookbooks. He is partnering with the jewelry company Asprey to created a limited edition £1,000 luxury leather-bound book. The book will also come with two surprise 'silver gifts' from Asprey. The Independent reports that in spite of a weakening global economy luxury books are still big business. We've certainly seen more than a few, check out some examples in the gallery below.

Gallery: The Pricey Tomes

Distinctive VintagesEarthPeleSuperyacht BookChanel by the Book

El Bulli is Still the World's Best Restaurant

Posted Apr 26th 2007 6:30PM by Rigel Celeste
Filed under: Dining


What does it take to be the best restaurant in the world? Ask El Bulli, who holds the honor for the second year in a row according to Restaurant magazine's ranking of the top 50. Last year El Bulli squeezed out Fat Duck for the top spot, and this year all top six spots remain the same. The United States made a respectable showing also, with two restaurants in the top 10: The French Laundry and Per Se, and among others Alinea in Chicago made the list for the first time this year at #36.

Fat Duck Brings iPods To The Table

Posted Apr 23rd 2007 11:03AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Dining

Fat Duck, one of the world's finest restaurants, has added a new layer to their tasting menu experience by adding an iPod to the proceedings. The Sound of the Sea is a seafood dish that is served with an iPod so that you can listen to the sea while you eat the food. Chef Heston Blumenthal has created the dish which includes shellfish juice made into a foam served along side 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. The dish comes inside a glass-topped wooden box containing sand and seashells and is served with a glass of seaweed extraction and mirin. The 17-course meal also includes offerings such as a silver rose bush with edible petals and afterdinner whiskey gums.

[via Wired News]


The World's Most Unusual Restaurants

Posted Dec 21st 2006 2:02PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Dining

One of the biggest trends in find dining over the past year has been the continued interest in molecular gastronomy, the food movement in which the chef is recast as a scientist (or the other way around) and prepares familiar flavors in startling forms or creates familiar forms with unexpected flavors. Think foods like hot ice cream and solidified sauces complementing a liquid poached pear. The world's most unusual restaurants include some of the bastions of molecular gastronomy, such as England's Fat Duck, and NYC's WD-50 but also includes Ninja in New York, where ninja servers perform magic while serving you expensive sushi, Dinner in the Sky and Annalakshmi, where you only pay what you feel like paying.

El Bulli Named The World's Best Restaurant

Posted Apr 10th 2006 9:05PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Dining

What are the 20 best restaurants in the world? According to Restaurant magazine, El Bulli, Ferran Adria's iconic restaurant in northern Spain is now top on the list, upsetting last year's winner the U.K.'s Fat Duck (shown here), which is now number two, where El Bulli was last year. Both restaurants specialize in experimental cuisine. French Laundry was tops in the U.S. at number three four and Thomas Keller's New York restaurant Per Se ranked eighth.

1. El Bulli (Spain)
2. The Fat Duck (U.K.)
3. Pierre Gagnaire (France)
4. French Laundry (U.S.)
5. Tetsuya's (Australia)
6. Bras (France)
7. Restaurant le Louis XV (Monaco)
8. Per Se (U.S.)
9. Restaurant Arzak (Spain)
10. Mugaritz (Spain)
11. Can Fabes (Spain)
12. Nobu (U.K.)
13. Gambero Rosso (Italy)
14. Gordon Ramsay Royal Hospital Road (U.K.)
15. Restaurant Alain Ducasse (France)
16. Jean Georges (U.S., New York)
17. Le Cinq (France)
18. Daniel (U.S., New York)
19. Oud Sluis (Netherlands)
20. Chez Panisse (U.S.)

Dom Perignon Celebratory Meal Served at The Fat Duck

Posted Feb 23rd 2006 4:02PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Dining, Wine

I never know what to make of experimental cuisine, part of me wants to embrace the inventiveness of the cook, the other part of me says brings me the classics instead. Decanter covers a meal made by Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck to celebrate the release of the Dom Perignon 1996 Rose. The Fat Duck has been named the world's best restaurant and serves unique cuisine that is famous for its wow factor. The five hour dinner included snail porridge, bacon and egg ice cream, oyster and passion fruit jelly, mustard ice cream, jelly of quail and langoustine, truffle toast and oak moss film, foie gras with cherry and chamomile, and salmon and licorice. The 1996 Rose was served as an apertif and several other Dom vintages accompanied the meal. It doesn't sound like my dream menu but as one of the writers who attended the dinner said "it was a performance, not a meal."

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