Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original dishes as

Snail Porridge and Nitrogen Scrambled Egg & Bacon Ice Cream at his

internationally acclaimed restaurant, The Fat Duck. In this book,

a single-volume edition of the bestselling Perfection books, Heston focuses his creative talent on reinventing some of our most

well-known (and most abused) dishes.

He travels around the world in search of definitive versions of sixteen

classic dishes: Roast Chicken & Roast Potatoes, Pizza, Hamburger,

Bangers & Mash, Fish Pie, Steak, Spaghetti Bolognese, Risotto, Fish

& Chips, Chilli Con Carne, Chicken Tikka Masala, Peking duck, Black

Forest Gateau, Treacle Tart & Ice Cream, Trifle and Baked Alaska.

Among the many adventures on his quest, he travels to Delhi and makes

an MRI scan of the marinated chicken in his Tikki Masala; he discovers

the secret to the ultimate crispy duck in Peking and experiments at

home by inflating a Gressingham on a footpump; he walks the Dickensian

streets of Lambeth and learns how to capture the essence of a fish and

chip shop in a perfume bottle, and he explores the Willy Wonka-esque

Tate&Lyle factory and tastes some seventy-year-old syrup that

proves an inspiration for the flavour of his treacle tart.

Total Perfection is an original, inspiring and fascinating voyage around the culinary globe.