Heston gives you lots of food for thought!! (Heston's Feast - Channel 4)

Member Name: dove3066

Product:	Heston's Feast - Channel 4
Date:	24/04/09 (39 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Interesting, funny, slightly different twist on a cookery show

Disadvantages: The first episode was probably the best

This programme was shown in march on Channel 4. It was presented by one of the latest "celebrity" chefs - Heston Blumenthal. He looked back into history and ctried to recreate 4 feasts. These were a victorain Feast, a tudor feast, a medieval feast and finally a roman feast.

I found that this series actually peaked after the first episode. the victorian feast was by far the most interesting of all the series and unfortunately I ended up comparing every episode to the first one.

The programme wasn't all about cooking it really was more of an entertainment show where the selected celebs were invited to the feast and we could see the look on their faces as they ate insects or started eating all the knives and forks (which were made of chocolate!).

There were some really horrible bits in this programme and there were acouple of times when I had to look away when he was gutting fish and removing the intestines of a pig. I don't think that this would be an ideal programme for a vegtarian!!!!

There were also a lot of funny parts - I think the idea of a jelly which was made to wobbly using an adult toy(?!) was something which had me in stitches. If you watched this programme on the sunday tea time repeat you would have missed it because they edited it out!!

This was an interesting twist on your usual cooking programmes and well worth catching if you missed it first time around.

Summary: A recreation of historical feasts