HESTON BLUMENTHAL WINS THE DINERS CLUB® LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2017
*Editors Note
*We publish this post factum and for the record, after certain industry representations made to me personally as publisher of Connoisseur Magazine (and administrator of a 40,000 strong Wine Food & Travel oriented Linkedin and Social media network) both as acknowledgement and recognition of Heston Blumenthal’s considerable career and industry achievements
On a personal note I had the pleasure of interviewing Heston at Madrid Fusion in 2008 and we continue to share some of Hestons’ early Recipes on Connoisseur Magazine in 2008 and have also published some of his quite scientific and groundbreaking work into ” Food with Sherry Matching” originally commissioned by the Spanish Sherry Institute some years ago.
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Celebrated chef Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has been awarded the 2017 Diners Club® Lifetime Achievement Award. The prestigious honour is part of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, which took place on April 5th at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Australia.
One of the culinary world’s most influential figures, Blumenthal, 50, is largely self-taught. Aside from a two-week stint at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in the UK, the London-born Blumenthal has no formal training. He developed his multi-sensory approach to cooking through investigation, experimentation and a single-minded vision to challenge culinary norms. In 1995, Blumenthal opened The Fat Duck, a 40-seat restaurant in the tiny UK village of Bray, where he earned plaudits for his playful, inventive multi-course tasting menu and curious flavour combinations.
