Heston's Feasts
Michelin three-star award winning chef Heston Blumenthal believes the future of food can and needs to be developed from the past, but reinvented to modern sensibilities. He looks to specific historic periods as the inspiration for a series of meals he hopes will be one of the most if not most memorable feasts his guests have ever had. He strives not only to have the food taste good, but for it to be inventive and fun. Going into the meal, his guests have no idea what they will be experiencing.
- 2009-2010
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
Michelin three-star award winning chef Heston Blumenthal believes the future of food can and needs to be developed from the past, but reinvented to modern sensibilities. He looks to specific historic periods as the inspiration for a series of meals he hopes will be one of the most if not most memorable feasts his guests have ever had. He strives not only to have the food taste good, but for it to be inventive and fun. Going into the meal, his guests have no idea what they will be experiencing.
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2010
Episode 1
Heston's Chocolate Factory Feast
48 mins
Heston explores the 1960s, an amazing age of food experimentation, with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory feast for celebrity diners Strong language
Episode 2
Heston's Fairytale Feast
48 mins
Heston makes a fairytale meal featuring a Cinderella pumpkin, a stuffed boar's head inspired by Snow White, and an edible Hansel and Gretel house for pudding. His guests include actress Fay Ripley and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli. Strong language and scenes of animal butchery
Episode 3
Heston's Titanic Feast
48 mins
Heston lays on an adventurous Edwardian feast worthy of being served on the Titanic. The menu features an Antarctic roll served on edible snow, inspired by Scott of the Antarctic, and a camel burger, inspired by Lawrence of Arabia. Some strong language
Episode 4
Heston's Gothic Feast
48 mins
Heston creates a banquet based on favourite 19th century horror novels like Dracula and Frankenstein, including blood risotto and an edible monster, and polished off with an edible graveyard for dessert with edible breasts Some scenes of animal butchery
Episode 5
Heston's 70s Feast
48 mins
Heston goes 70s retro, serving savoury ice lollies, a luxury school dinner of spam fritters, lumpy mash and cabbage, and a flying dessert
Episode 6
Heston's 80s Feast
48 mins
Heston returns to the 1980s, cooking up sake champagne in a giant mobile phone with edible sushi money, the ultimate toasted sandwich, a power lobster in the microwave, and a weightless floating dessert combining Vienetta and tiramisu.
Episode 7
Heston's Ultimate Feast
48 mins
Heston picks his favourite dishes from his first series of Feasts, including meat fruit from the middle ages, a mesmerising mock turtle soup from his trippy Victorian Feast, an ejaculating cake from Ancient Rome, and an edible monster from the times of Henry VIII called a cockentrice. Scenes of animal butchery