Heston Blumenthal's superb lunatic display

I spend alot of time eating, drinking and writing about both, but I'll admit I barely watch any of the food programming on TV, in much the same way as an accountant doesn't come home in the evenings and do the family accounts -- it's too much like work. But given the excited build-up ahead of Heston Blumenthal's new Feasts series on Channel 4, I demured.



Without doubt one of the strangest food series ever commissioned, on the strengh of the opening show -- Heston had a luminescent absinthe jelly gyrating with multiple vibrators in deference to the Victorian classic Alice in Wonderland. Not to mention the absinthe carnage in France which involved a wholly unnecessary trip to taste the 'green fairy' in its spiritual birthplace. The wholly edible garden with soil of black olives, clay-covered potatoes and stuffed crickets was sheer, fantastical, madness and huge entertaining stuff. It seems the Channel 4 execs have finally admitted that no-one watching food programming actually attempts to cook what's on display for themselves and have come out pie-eyed and guns a-blazing.

Unaccustomed to using the 'series link' on my Sky remote, I've now exercised it for the first time this year -- with the expectation that there's more madness to follow.

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