Heston Blumenthal
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
Goalhanger
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Emily and Ray go for a stroll with legendary chef Heston Blumenthal, around the village of Bray in Berkshire, the location of his world famous restaurant. They talk about Heston's childhood Christmas dinners, the meal that changed his life as a teenager, and his bulldog Harry.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Pet Plan who are the UK's number one pet insurer. |
| 0:05.0 | I've always used Pet Plan for Raymond as they cover things other insurers don't |
| 0:09.0 | and they can even pay your vet directly, which can be a big help. No Raymond that doesn't mean you can spend |
| 0:15.4 | all the extra cash on treats. Terms, conditions and excesses apply. Pet plan is a |
| 0:20.7 | trading name of Allian's Insurance PLC. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh Ray, he didn't do a poo on a grave, did he, Heston? |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, right, oh I think he did, hang on. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, did he do a poo on a grave? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, but think of the microbes. |
| 0:46.0 | This week on Walking the Dog, I pop down to a little village in Berkshire to meet the man responsible for revolutionizing British food, Heston Blumentop. Heston lives in France now where he has a bulldog called Harry. |
| 0:49.6 | Harry wasn't able to join him on this trip, so we went for a stroll with my shih Tzu Raymond who greeted |
| 0:54.6 | Heston by covering his face in licks, and Heston loved it, so I knew he was going to be our kind of guest. |
| 1:01.1 | We chatted about his childhood, the meal that changed his life as a teenager, his discovery in adulthood that he had ADHD, and the personal sacrifices that he had to make whilst creating his Micheland-style restaurant, The Fat Dark. |
| 1:14.0 | Heston also gave me a great Christmas dinner tip and yes I will be stocking up on his |
| 1:19.4 | weight rose range. It's not Christmas without heeston and you should check out a BBC documentary about him coming up on the 19th of December called |
| 1:27.0 | Heston's marvelous menu back to the Noughties, where he revisits the early days of the Fat Dark, |
| 1:32.2 | where the concept of his cuisine all started. |
| 1:34.6 | Heston is as far from the idea of the temperamental chef as it's possible to be. |
| 1:39.8 | He's driven and he's clearly a total perfectionist, but he's incredibly sweet natured and humble and he has this kind of infectious curiosity about the world. |
| 1:48.8 | But most importantly, he loves dogs and he reinvented the British chip. I really hope you enjoy my chat with Heston |
| 1:56.7 | and if you do please rate review and subscribe. Enough of me here's Heston! |
| 2:05.0 | Come on then let's Heston. Come on then, let's go, Raymond. Heston. |
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