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10/10/2025

It’s not a potato potahto when it comes to potatoes.

Last year, I had the pleasure of welcoming the Terra X production team to share my very first recipe, the recipe for Triple Cooked Chips. I took the crew down the rabbit hole where we meticulously compared different varieties, examined their starch content the old-fashioned way, juiced and tasted the water, and even ended up stuffing a chip with ketchup because… why not?

As Terra X is German TV, the episode is in the native language. But if you’re a dab hand at Deutsch, want to practise your German, or simply believe cuisine transcends conversational constraints, you can watch me make chips here: https://www.zdf.de/play/reportagen/terra-x-chemie-des-kochens-mit-mai-thi-nguyen-kim-dokureihe-100/terra-x-chemie-des-kochens-wasser-mit-mai-thi-nguyen-kim-doku-100

08/10/2025

San Sebastián holds a very special place in my heart. It was here that my cooking was first truly appreciated, even before it was in England. Coming back brings back so many meaningful memories and the chance to see old friends.

To return now and receive the San Sebastián Gastronomika Euskadi Basque Country 2025 Tribute Award makes it all the more emotional.

I’m grateful to be part of this incredible community, and a heartfelt thank you to everyone who came to say hello during the convention.

17/09/2025

For those you who like a competitive TV cookery show, on MasterChef on Thursday 18 September at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer, Heston will for the first time be putting the contestants through their paces with a typically tough culinary challenge that’ll surely stretch their skills and their imagination.

If you’ve been watching this series, you’ll know that the amateur chefs have already put in a huge amount of effort to reach the semi-finals, and now have their eyes on a very big prize, which might change their lives.

Expect some exceptional cooking.

05/09/2025

As promised, a few more crackpot snaps from the Blumenthal album.

1 Since we share a taste for the surreal (on canvas or in cuisine), I guess it was inevitable that me and the painter René Magritte would cross paths visually at some point.

2 A shoot for Heston’s Great British Food. I’ve got a big grin on my face, but who wouldn’t have when they’ve supersized a Yorkshire pudding?

3 A Christmas-pudding pate for festive fun.* A reference to the fact I usually develop and sell a deliciously different pud for Xmas.
*No chefs were harmed during the making of this shot.

4 My dish Flaming Sorbet, threatening at any minute to turn into flaming Heston.

5 One to remember of a long and difficult project for Channel 4 TV series called Heston’s Dinner In Space in which l collaborated with the UK Space Agency to cook the food that Major Tim Peake would eat during his half-year in space.

24/07/2025

My reputation for crazy creativity is often a red rag to photographers and directors, who can’t resist depicting me in strange situations. Take a look at my books and you’ll see me in a fez in Fez, or with a boar’s tongue in my mouth! Here are some other surreal set-ups.

1. No this pic isn’t trying to suggest I’ve got too big for my boots. It alludes to Alice’s size-shifts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which is a big inspiration for me. (And, yes, that is a floating pillow beside me – part of my Counting Sheep dish.)

2. GQ Man of the Year 2011 – I’m not sure why I was styled as a fisherman, and I’m not sure the waders ‘n’ tux look will ever catch on.

3. From Heston’s Fantastical Feasts – a mash-up of a medieval pigeon pie recipe and the nursery rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’. The feast featured mini pies hidden in a giant one from which pigeons fluttered when the lid was opened. Guests couldn’t believe their eyes.

4. Who knows what this was about? I’m in pyjamas so perhaps I’m dreaming of giant Gummy Bears – although, come to think of it, that’s not a bad idea. Maybe I should l start developing one…

5. The final course at The Fat Duck is served from a model sweetshop that includes a tiny recreation of a 1970s kid’s bedroom much like my own, and a fully equipped sweetshop laboratory. The beauty of photography is that it can turn this into reality.

More crackpot snaps in the next round.

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